Exhibit 6-3 PharmaCo Wants to Determine How to Deploy Sales Representatives Across

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Essay

Exhibit 6-3
PharmaCo wants to determine how to deploy sales representatives across its Western U.S. region to support a new drug for obesity. Sales representatives will be located in a "home city", which they serve, in addition to cities with feasible commuting distance, with the objective that all cities must be served by at least one sales representative. The feasible connections between each city in the region are listed below (1 indicates a feasible connection):

-Refer to Exhibit 6-3.Suppose PharmaCo wants to have a backup for each city.What is the minimum number of representatives that can cover this region in that case
What are their home cities

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