Determine whether the following statement is true or false, and explain why. A surplus variable of a linear programming problem can never have a negative value during the intermediate steps of the simplex method. Question content area bottom Part 1 Choose the correct answer below. A. The statement is false. A surplus variable cannot have a negative value at the beginning or end of the simplex method. It almost always has a negative value during at least some of the intermediate steps. B. The statement is false. A surplus variable cannot have a negative value at the beginning or end of the simplex method. It may have a negative value during an intermediate step. C. The statement is true. A surplus variable can never have a negative value during any step of the simplex method, including intermediate steps. D. The statement is true. A surplus variable always has a positive value during every step of the simplex method, including intermediate steps