Tala Is Stumped by a Problem in Her Pre-Calculus Text

Multiple Choice

Tala is stumped by a problem in her pre-calculus text.She furtively glances at the answer provided in the back of the text to get an idea of how the solution should look before she returns to the problem.Tala's strategy most closely resembles the problem-solving heuristic of ___.

A) forming subgoals
B) trial and error
C) working backward
D) using an analogy