One way to incorporate a prohibited route in a transportation problem is to
A)assign a low cost,relative to the other route shipping costs,to the prohibited route
B)assign a high cost,relative to the other route shipping costs,to the prohibited route
C)assign a zero cost to the prohibited route
D)transportation problems with prohibited routes cannot be modeled

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Assigning a high cost to the prohibited route ensures that it will not be selected as an option in the solution to the transportation problem. By making it more expensive than the other routes, the algorithm will choose alternative routes that do not have the constraint of being prohibited.

One Way to Incorporate a Prohibited Route in a Transportation