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Pouring water. We have three containers whose sizes are 10 pints, 7 pints, and 4 pints
Chapter 3, Problem 3.8(choose chapter or problem)
Pouring water. We have three containers whose sizes are 10 pints, 7 pints, and 4 pints, respectively. The 7-pint and 4-pint containers start out full of water, but the 10-pint container is initially empty. We are allowed one type of operation: pouring the contents of one container into another, stopping only when the source container is empty or the destination container is full. We want to know if there is a sequence of pourings that leaves exactly 2 pints in the 7- or 4-pint container.
(a) Model this as a graph problem: give a precise definition of the graph involved and state the specific question about this graph that needs to be answered.
(b) What algorithm should be applied to solve the problem?
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Pouring water. We have three containers whose sizes are 10 pints, 7 pints, and 4 pints, respectively. The 7-pint and 4-pint containers start out full of water, but the 10-pint container is initially empty. We are allowed one type of operation: pouring the contents of one container into another, stopping only when the source container is empty or the destination container is full. We want to know if there is a sequence of pourings that leaves exactly 2 pints in the 7- or 4-pint container.
(a) Model this as a graph problem: give a precise definition of the graph involved and state the specific question about this graph that needs to be answered.
(b) What algorithm should be applied to solve the problem?
ANSWER:Step 1 of 3
The graph data structure is used for solving problems like social networking, state machine modeling, and other computational problems. In general, a graph contains vertices and edges. The vertices represent the nodes and the edges represent the path between the nodes.
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