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Brantley College Has Decided to "Wire" Its Campus

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Brantley College has decided to "wire" its campus.The first stage in this effort is to install the "backbone," i.e. ,to connect all the buildings.The table below gives the distances between the various buildings on campus in hundreds of feet.How should the buildings be connected to minimize the total length of cable? What length of cable is required? Brantley College has decided to  wire  its campus.The first stage in this effort is to install the  backbone,  i.e. ,to connect all the buildings.The table below gives the distances between the various buildings on campus in hundreds of feet.How should the buildings be connected to minimize the total length of cable? What length of cable is required?


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