Problem Set (Math of Graphs)
Problem Set (Math of Graphs)
(Mathematics of Graphs)
1. Nicole wants to tour Asia. She will start and end her journey in Tokyo
and visit Hong Kong, Bangkok, Seoul, and Beijing. The airfares (in US
Dollars) available to her between cities are given in the table. Draw a
weighted graph that represents the travel costs between cities and use
the greedy algorithm to find a low-cost route.
3. Represent the map by a graph and find a coloring of the graph that
uses the smallest possible number of colors.
4. Students in a film class have volunteered to form groups and create
several short films. The class has three digital video cameras that
may be checked out for one day only, and it is expected that each
group will need the entire day to finish shooting. All members of each
group must participate in the film they volunteered for, so a student
cannot work on more than one film on any given day.
Use graph coloring to design a schedule for lending the cameras, using the
smallest possible number of days, so that each group can shoot its film and
all members can participate.