Suppose That After a Storm an Inspection Needs to Be

question 37

Multiple Choice

Suppose that after a storm an inspection needs to be made of the sewers along the streets in a small village to make sure local flooding is not due to clogging. Which technique is most likely to be useful in solving this problem?

• A) Finding an Euler circuit on a graph
• B) Applying the nearest-neighbor algorithm for the traveling salesman problem
• C) Applying Kruskal's algorithm for finding a minimum-cost spanning tree for a graph
• D) None of these techniques is likely to apply

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