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Graphs : Connectedness, Vertices and Edges

11. Let G be a graph with n>=  2 vertices.
a) Prove that if G has at least (n-1) + 1 edges the G is connected.
                                           (  2 )

b) Show that the result in (a) is best possible; that is, for each n>= 2, prove there is a graph with (n- 1)
                                                                                                                                             (  2  )  
edges that is not connected.

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