You and a friend are presented with the problem of how you could determine how many equal weight stones would match your 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.

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The correct answer is selective comparison because both you and your friend used the method of comparing the problem at hand with a known story or method (Archimedes' principle and the Chinese fable) to come up with a solution. This involves drawing parallels between different situations to solve a problem.

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