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There are eight small islands in a lake, and the state wants to build seven brid

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Question

There are eight small islands in a lake, and the state wants to build seven bridges to connect them so that each island can be reached from other one via one or more bridges. The cost of constructing a bridge is proportional to its length. The distances between pairs of islands are given in the following table.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

1

-

240

210

340

280

200

345

120

2

-

-

265

175

215

180

185

155

3

-

-

-

260

115

350

435

195

4

-

-

-

-

160

330

295

230

5

-

-

-

-

-

360

400

170

6

-

-

-

-

-

-

175

205

7

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

305

8

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

                                         1               240                                     2

                                                     210               155

                                                                                        185

            120                                                                      180 215 175      265

                                345   200   280    340

8                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                 195         3

                                                                                                                           435    

                                                                                                                     350

                                                              

305                                                                                                                        115

                                                                                                                                          260

                                                                                                                                                                            230

                                                                                                             295

   7                                                                                                                                4

                                                                                                                        330

                                                                                

                                                                                                                        160

                   175      205                                              170                              

                                                                       

                                      6                                              400     5

                                                                              360

(1). You need to find the seven bridges which costs the least distance. Apply the Prim’s algorithm. The starting island is 1. Show the process of finding the answer. Find the constructed seven bridges and the total cost.

(2). It is found later that the distance between island 1 and island 8 was not 120. It is 222. Apply again Prim’s algorithm to find the result.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

1

-

240

210

340

280

200

345

120

2

-

-

265

175

215

180

185

155

3

-

-

-

260

115

350

435

195

4

-

-

-

-

160

330

295

230

5

-

-

-

-

-

360

400

170

6

-

-

-

-

-

-

175

205

7

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

305

8

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Explanation / Answer

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>Mainly the Prim-Jarník algorithm works by adding a new vertex to the tree at each step.
>order of adding will depend on the starting vertex, although the resulting tree shoul d be the same.
For example, if we choose vertex 8 as the starting vertex, the edges are added in this or der:

So here is the way:

8 to 1 (120)
8 to 2 (155)
8 to 5 (170)
5 to 3 (115)
5 to 4 (160)
2 to 6 (180)
6 to 7 (175)

So finally graph willl be in this way:

1 -- 8 -- 2 -- 6 -- 7
|
|
3 -- 5 -- 4