Problem Solving Simulation

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Problem Solving Simulation How did you interpret the problem? Interpretation of the problem was the first step in solving the problem my initial interpretation was that it was an impossible task to complete. After contemplating the issue for about 15 minutes, after I got up and would visualize the raft, and sending each animal one at a time. I could not leave the mouse and the cat together, and I could not leave the cat and the dog together, which meant that I would have to have an animal on the raft with me on each trip across the river. My first interpretation was that this task could not be accomplished, then after viewing all of the options I had. I realize this will be quite simple. I think I got it! What strategy did you used and how did you evaluate your progress? Unfortunately the cat was killed many times before the red light came on. Using hill-climbing aided me in my strategy to getting all three animals across the river. Each step I moved closer to getting all three animals safely across the river. First I would take the cat across the river on the raft. Then I would go back to the other side and bring the dog across; then I would go back with the cat and bring the mouse across to join the dog; go back across and retrieve the cat again to go across. As I used hill-climbing as a guild, figuring out how without any of them killing each other was quite simple. However, it took many trips across to achieve the task. Did you encounter any obstacles while solving the problem? I n the beginning, I had a mental set that blocked me from indentifying an easy way to achieve the task. Personally, I could not see any reason why the dog could just swim across the river while I took the mouse across the river, leaving the dog and mouse on one side, while I retrieved the cat. Then it came to me (thinking outside the box) how I could get all three across

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