- A sheet is provided for use in answering this question.
A town has adopted a one-way system to cope with recent problems associated with congestion in one area.
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Figure 3 models the one-way system as a capacitated directed network. The numbers on the arcs are proportional to the number of vehicles that can pass along each road in a given period of time.
- Find the capacity of the cut which passes through the \(\operatorname { arcs } A E , B F , B G\) and \(C D\).
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Figure 4 shows a feasible flow of 17 through the same network. For convenience, a supersource, \(S\), and a supersink, \(T\), have been used. - Use the labelling procedure to find the maximum flow through this network listing each flow-augmenting route you use together with its flow.
- Show your maximum flow pattern and state its value.
- Prove that your flow is the maximum possible through the network.
- It is suggested that the maximum flow through the network could be increased by making road \(E F\) undirected, so that it has a capacity of 8 in either direction.
Using the maximum flow-minimum cut theorem, find the increase in maximum flow this change would allow.