For a class project, Mindi has to deliver a presentation on heuristics and algorithms. She decides to create a demonstration to illustrate how people often use heuristics instead of algorithms. People do this because heuristics

A. avoid mental sets.
B. guarantee solutions.
C. avoid functional fixedness.
D. are shortcuts to solutions.


Answer: D

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