A major problem with the hill-climbing heuristic is that

a. people choose the most direct route at every choice point, even though an indirect route may be better in the long run.
b. people are inefficient in dividing the problem into the appropriate subproblems.
c. people typically show functional fixedness.
d. people are too likely to move backwards, rather than forwards.

Ans: a

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