AQA D1 2013 January — Question 3

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleD1 (Decision Mathematics 1)
Year2013
SessionJanuary
TopicSequences and Series

3 The following network shows the lengths, in miles, of roads connecting nine villages, \(A , B , \ldots , I\). A delivery man lives in village \(A\) and is to drive along all the roads at least once before returning to \(A\).
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  1. Find the length of an optimal Chinese postman route around the nine villages, starting and finishing at \(A\).
  2. For an optimal Chinese postman route corresponding to your answer in part (a), state:
    1. the number of times village \(E\) would be visited;
    2. the number of times village \(I\) would be visited.