Imagine a group of three people (Tom, Joe, and Beth) want to form a two-person team. They can create three different teams: Tom and Joe, Tom and Beth, or Joe and Beth. There are three different two-person teams. Now imagine you have ten people who want to form two-person teams and ten people who want to form eight person teams. You need to determine if there are more two-persons teams possible or more eight person teams possible.This is an example of:
A)Availability heuristic
B)Recency heuristic
C)Representative generation
D)Gamblers fallacy

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The availability heuristic is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision. In this scenario, the example of forming teams among a small group of people is used to help understand the concept of combinations in a larger group, making it easier to relate to and understand by using a familiar and simple example.

Imagine a Group of Three People (Tom, Joe, and Beth)