You want to boil an egg for 15 minutes, and all you have is a 7-minute hourglass and an 11-minute hourglass. Using these two hourglasses in your solution requires you to use
A)selective combination.
B)selective attention.
C)selective encoding.
D)selective comparison.

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Selective combination involves integrating different pieces of information to solve a problem. In this case, you need to figure out how to use the 7-minute and 11-minute hourglasses in tandem to measure a 15-minute period, which requires combining the timings in a specific way to achieve the desired outcome.

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