A City Consists of Five Boroughs, and Each Borough Has

question 15

Short Answer

A city consists of five boroughs, and each borough has three neighborhoods and each neighborhood consists of ten houses. You have been hired to run a fiber-optic cable, networking all of the houses to each other. No matter the length, it costs $50 to connect any one house to any other house. Based on all of this information, what will it cost to network all of the houses together so that there are no redundancies? Hint: Think of each house as a vertex.
(a) $7450
(b) $7500
(c) $8000
(d) $8500
(e) None of the above.

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