When Nicole was searching for a house she looked at the most important attribute, which was the number of bedrooms, and eliminated any option that did not meet a minimum cutoff point of three. She then evaluated houses based on her next most important attribute, the number of bathrooms, and eliminated those that did not have at least two. She continued this process until only one option was left. What decision rule was Nicole using?
A) conjunctive
B) lexicographic
C) elimination-by-aspects
D) disjunctive

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Nicole was using the elimination-by-aspects decision rule, where she sequentially eliminated options that did not meet her criteria for each attribute, starting with the most important one.

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