Question

The unoccupied cells in the transportation table are analogous to

• A. current solution variables
• B. non-basic variables
• C. next after opportunity cost cells
• D. optimal values of the objective function

Hint:

Unoccupied cells in a transportation table are analogous to non-basic variables in linear programming and they may become part of the solution in the next steps

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

In the transportation problem unoccupied cells represent non-basic variables These are cells that are not currently being used to transport goods but may be used in future iterations based on the opportunity cost method to find the optimal solution