Esmeralda wants to use her roommate's computer to work on her term paper.However,the roommate has password protection on the computer's boot sequence.Rather than starting at "a" and systematically testing every possible word in the English language,Esmeralda makes some educated guesses about the passwords,based on what she knows about her roommate.In this case,Esmeralda is using
A) a heuristic to get past the password protection.
B) an algorithm to get past the password protection.
C) reframing to get past the password protection.
D) representativeness to get past the password protection.

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Esmeralda is using a heuristic, which is a shortcut or rule of thumb that helps one solve a problem quickly and efficiently. She is not using a step-by-step procedure (algorithm), reframing, or representativeness.

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