12.4 - Traveling Salesman Problem
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Practice Questions
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Define the Traveling Salesman Problem.
💡 Hint: Think about routes in delivery planning.
What does NP-hard mean?
💡 Hint: Consider how quickly solutions can be checked.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the goal of the Traveling Salesman Problem?
💡 Hint: Focus on what the salesman aims to achieve.
True or False: The Traveling Salesman Problem can be solved in polynomial time for all instances.
💡 Hint: Reflect on the complexity classifying problems.
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Challenge Problems
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Given a set of cities and distances between them, write a program that implements a heuristic to approximate a solution to the Traveling Salesman Problem.
💡 Hint: Start with a distance matrix and pick the shortest route iteratively.
Explain how the NP-hard classification affects real-world applications of TSP in industries such as logistics and delivery services.
💡 Hint: Reflect on how companies deal with large travel demands.
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