If an online retailer uses linear programming to optimize warehouse packing for minimizing shipping costs given box size constraints, which consequence follows from incorrectly specifying the objective function?

💡 Explanation

If the objective function is misspecified, the simplex method targets a solution that is optimal for the *incorrect* objective, because it uses the function to guide its search. Therefore, a suboptimal packing strategy is implemented, rather than finding the actual lowest cost solution under the correct constraints.

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