The northwest-corner rule is best used:
A) to minimize the total shipping cost from several origins to several destinations.
B) to calculate whether a feasible solution is also an optimal solution.
C) to calculate how much to transfer from one shipping route to another.
D) to generate an initial feasible solution to a transportation problem.
E) to resolve cases of degeneracy in transportation problems.

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The northwest-corner rule is used to generate an initial feasible solution to a transportation problem by assigning shipments starting from the upper-left corner of the transportation table and then filling in the remaining cells.

The Northwest-Corner Rule Is Best Used