Brandon works for a courier service. In creating his route each day he starts by selecting the address closest to the dispatch office. Once he makes that delivery he checks the remaining addresses and picks the one closest to his current location. He follows this process for all his remaining deliveries for the day. Brandon's strategy for building his daily delivery route is closest to
A) working backward.
B) availability.
C) hill climbing.
D) trial-and-error.

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Brandon's strategy of selecting the closest address to his current location is an example of a hill climbing algorithm, where the algorithm chooses the next step that appears to be the closest to the goal.

Brandon Works for a Courier Service