IB skill practice

Use travelling salesperson bounds

Calculate and interpret lower or upper bounds for route-planning networks.

Paper 1, Paper 2 5 marks Difficulty 3

Use travelling salesperson bounds - technology-output check

For a training centre travelling-salesperson lower-bound check, deleting one vertex leaves an MST of weight 22. The two smallest edges incident to the deleted vertex have total 11. Find the lower bound. This version asks for the same mathematical quantity after confirming the method from the context. Enter the requested value and choose the interpretation that matches the result.

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