The Figure Below Shows the Possible Routes from City a to City

question 48

Multiple Choice

The figure below shows the possible routes from city A to city M as well as the cost (in dollars) of a trip between each pair of cities (note that if no arc joins two cities it is not possible to travel non-stop between those two cities) . A traveler wishes to find the lowest cost option to travel from city A to city
M. Which type of network optimization problem is used to solve this problem?

• A) Maximum-Cost Flow problem
• B) Average-Cost Flow problem
• C) Maximum Flow Problem
• D) Minimum Flow Problem
• E) Shortest Path Problem

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