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 selective
A) combination.
B) attention.
C) encoding.
D) comparison.

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Combination is required because you need to figure out how to use both hourglasses in a way that allows you to measure a 15-minute interval, which involves creatively combining the different time intervals they provide.

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