Kimba is trying to decide to which graduate schools she will apply. She has decided not to apply to any university located in a city with a population greater than 500,000 people, and she does not plan to apply to any university more than 500 miles from the city where her parents live. The decision strategy that Kimba is using is referred to as
A) a purely additive decision strategy.
B) a weighted decision strategy.
C) elimination by aspects.
D) the availability heuristic.

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Kimba is using the elimination by aspects decision strategy, where she is eliminating options based on certain predetermined criteria. Her criteria is that the university cannot be located in a city with a population greater than 500,000 people and cannot be more than 500 miles from her parents' city.

Kimba Is Trying to Decide to Which Graduate Schools She