Which situation best illustrates how production decisions are made in a traditional economy?
A. A village elder teaches young farmers which crops to grow in
different seasons.
B. A government panel orders factories to make more fuel-efficient
cars.
C. A grocery store stops buying meat from farms that abuse animals.
D. A company designs a new laptop computer with features
consumers want.

The village elder teaches young farmers which crops to grow in different seasons.

Explanation:

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

that would be the steamboat because none of the other things are forms of transportation