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An effective strategy for solving ill-defined problems is :
Answer: B
The effective strategy is means-ends analysis.
An ill-defined problem has no clear starting state, goal or set of permitted steps, so no ready-made procedure fits it. Means-ends analysis is a heuristic: the solver compares where they are with where they want to be, breaks the gap into sub-goals and picks a step that reduces each difference. That flexibility is what an ill-defined problem needs.
Algorithms work only for well-defined problems, where a fixed step-by-step procedure is guaranteed to reach the answer. Functional fixedness, seeing an object only in its usual use, is a barrier to problem-solving, not a strategy. Learning by rote stores answers without understanding and gives no way into a new problem.
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