Pakistan Railway has hired you for the task of repair of its rail networks of province SINDH, the cost of the repair of track between the different cities are presented in the given Table. For instance, the entry (KHI,HYD)= 10 in the table tells us the cost of building a rail connection between these two cities is 10 (in million rupees)     You are required to develop a rail network that connects all the cities by at least one path with the smallest cost by avoiding multiple paths to the same city. Hence the problem becomes the finding of Minimum spanning tree in a graph.   Your job is as follows;   a) Translate the given information in the form of Graph (Vertices & edges) b) Use Greedy Algorithms (Kruskal’s , if the S5 is odd & Prim’s technique , if S5 is even) to build rail connections in this scenario. Apply this algorithm and show all steps up to the final routes. c) What is the cost of repairing of resulting rail network?

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  • Pakistan Railway has hired you for the task of repair of its rail networks of province SINDH, the cost of the repair of track between the different cities are presented in the given Table. For instance, the entry (KHI,HYD)= 10 in the table tells us the cost of building a rail connection between these two cities is 10 (in million rupees)

 

 

You are required to develop a rail network that connects all the cities by at least one path with the smallest cost by avoiding multiple paths to the same city. Hence the problem becomes the finding of Minimum spanning tree in a graph.

 

Your job is as follows;

 

  1. a) Translate the given information in the form of Graph (Vertices & edges)

  2. b) Use Greedy Algorithms (Kruskal’s , if the S5 is odd & Prim’s technique , if S5 is even) to build rail connections in this scenario. Apply this algorithm and show all steps up to the final routes.
  3. c) What is the cost of repairing of resulting rail network?
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