5 [Answer this question on the insert provided.]
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In this network the vertices represent towns, the arcs represent roads and the weights on the arcs show the shortest distances in kilometres.
- The diagram on the insert shows the result of deleting vertex \(F\) and all the arcs joined to \(F\). Show that a lower bound for the length of the travelling salesperson problem on the original network is 38 km .
The corresponding lower bounds by deleting each of the other vertices are:
$$A : 40 \mathrm {~km} , \quad B : 39 \mathrm {~km} , \quad C : 35 \mathrm {~km} , \quad D : 37 \mathrm {~km} , \quad E : 35 \mathrm {~km} \text {. }$$
The route \(A - B - C - D - E - F - A\) has length 47 km .
- Using only this information, what are the best upper and lower bounds for the length of the solution to the travelling salesperson problem on the network?
- By considering the orders in which vertices \(C , D\) and \(E\) can be visited, find the best upper bound given by a route of the form \(A - B - \ldots - F - A\).