5 Charlotte is visiting a city and plans to visit its five monuments: \(A , B , C , D\) and \(E\).
The network shows the time, in minutes, that a typical tourist would take to walk between the monuments on a busy weekday morning.
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Charlotte intends to walk from one monument to another until she has visited them all, before returning to her starting place.
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- Use the nearest neighbour algorithm, starting from \(A\), to find an upper bound for the minimum time for Charlotte's tour.
5 - By deleting vertex \(B\), find a lower bound for the minimum time for Charlotte's tour.
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5 - Charlotte wants to complete the tour in 52 minutes. Use your answers to parts (a) and (b) to comment on whether this could be possible.
5 - Charlotte takes 58 minutes to complete the tour. Evaluate your answers to part (a) and part (b) given this information.
5 - Explain how this model for a typical tourist's tour may not be applicable if the tourist walked between the monuments during the evening.