The shadow price of nonbinding constraints
A)will always be zero.
B)will always be a positive value.
C)can never be equal to zero.
D)is no longer valid if the right-hand side of the constraint remains the same.

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A nonbinding constraint means that the optimal solution does not rely on it, so the shadow price, which represents the increase in the objective function value with a unit increase in the right-hand side of the constraint, is irrelevant and will always be zero.

The Shadow Price of Nonbinding Constraints