What are the main cons of hill-climbing search?

a) Terminates at local optimum & Does not find optimum solution

b) Terminates at global optimum & Does not find optimum solution

c) Does not find optimum solution & Fail to find a solution

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a) Terminates at local optimum & Does not find optimum solution

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