Which outcome occurs when an engineer selects a 'greedy algorithm' design paradigm to approximate the shortest path across a complex communications network?

💡 Explanation

A greedy algorithm selects the locally optimal choice at each step; therefore, it finds a suboptimal solution rapidly, because a greedy paradigm does not consider the global impact of each choice, rather than guaranteeing an optimal or exact solution.

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