Refer to the exhibit. Your junior design engineer presents this configuration design. What is the next-hop router for CE3, and why?

BGP path selection evaluates Weight first - the path with the highest Weight value is always preferred above all other attributes. Because CE1 has a higher BGP Weight than CE2, CE3 will select CE1 as its next hop regardless of other factors such as administrative distance or bandwidth. Weight is locally significant to the router performing the selection and is never advertised to BGP peers.

Administrative distance is used to choose between routes learned from different routing protocols, not between multiple BGP paths on the same router; BGP Weight takes precedence in the BGP best-path selection process before administrative distance is relevant.

Interface bandwidth is not a factor in the BGP best-path selection algorithm; BGP does not consider link bandwidth when choosing between candidate paths.

HSRP active/standby state determines the default gateway for locally attached hosts using a virtual IP address, and has no influence on BGP next-hop selection for CE3.