Millie 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. Millie's strategy most closely resembles the problem solving heuristic of _________.
A) forming subgoals
B) trial and error
C) working backward
D) using an anology

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Millie is using the working backward heuristic by looking at the provided answer and then trying to reverse engineer the solution to fit the problem.

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