OCR Further Discrete 2018 March — Question 4

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleFurther Discrete (Further Discrete)
Year2018
SessionMarch
TopicGraph Theory Fundamentals

4 The graph below connects nine vertices A, B, ..., H, I.
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  1. (a) Show that the minimum sum of the degrees of each pair of non-adjacent vertices is 9 .
    (b) Explain what you can deduce from the result in part (a).
  2. Use Kuratowski's theorem to prove that the graph is non-planar.
  3. Prove that there is no subgraph of the graph that is isomorphic to \(\mathrm { K } _ { 4 }\), without using subdivision or contraction.