Introduction to Problem Solving

Learning to Problem Solve
 What did you learn about your thinking so far? The difficulty of the three problems seems to depend not only on the number of defining attributes, but on the amount of irrelevant information as well.

A Wibble has but one identifying attribute – a tail.

A Snorp, on the other hand, must have spots as well as a tail.

A Mellinark must have a tail, a black dot, and spots.

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