Activity 1
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ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

 

1   What are the four stages of Polya’s problem-solving cycle?

  

2   What are heuristics?

 

3   What is meant by ‘backward chaining’?

  

4   Referring to problem solving, what is meant by ‘divide and conquer’?

  

5   What is an audit trail?

 

6   Apart from ‘divide and conquer’, state and explain four strategies you could use for solving problems.

 

 

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