Solutions to practice probs
There are many correct solutions to these problems. The solutions shown here are one way of solving, not the only way of solving.
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13. Triangulate:
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Choose guards. Note that to have the smallest number of guards, we need the ones labelled G : there are 5 R's and 5 B's, but only 4 G's.
14. If a gallery has 10 walls, what is the most number of cameras/guards you would need to watch the gallery?
At most you would need 3 guards. You can find 3 by doing 10/3 and throwing away the remainder. This works because any way you can split the 10 vertices into red, blue and green, at least one color has 3 or fewer vertices.
15. If a gallery has 22 walls, what is the most number of cameras/guards you would need to watch the gallery?
At most you would need 7 guards. You can find 3 by doing 22/3 and throwing away the remainder. This works because any way you can split the 22 vertices into red, blue and green, at least one color has 7 or fewer vertices.