You and a friend are presented with the problem of how you could determine how much gold would match a statue's weight without using a balance scale

You suddenly remember the story of how Archimedes determined the amount of gold in a crown by the amount of water it displaced. Your friend tells you that he solved the problem using the same method because he remembered the Chinese fable about how the villagers were able to weigh an elephant. You and your friend both solved the problem using
a. selective intuition.
b. selective comparison.
c. selective combination.
d. selective encoding.

ANSWER: b

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