Marty is the coach of a Little League Baseball team called the Joliet Slammers. Marty wants to use optimization and heuristic approaches to increase his team's odds of winning.
-Marty notices that by the ninth inning, the youngest players on the team are tired. He makes sure to put the youngest players in the busiest positions, such as shortstop or first base, early in the game. This is an example of a(n) ____ approach.

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This is a heuristic approach because Marty is using a rule of thumb or practical method (placing younger players in busy positions early) to solve a problem, rather than a mathematically optimal solution.

Marty Is the Coach of a Little League Baseball Team