Show that if a circuit in a planar graph encloses exactly two regions, each of which has an even number of boundary edges, then the circuit has even length

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Question 11 from Applied Combinatorics Section 1.3

(a) Show that if a circuit in a planar graph encloses exactly two regions, each of which has an even number of boundary edges, then the circuit has even length.

(b) Show that if a circuit in a planar graph encloses a collection of regions, each of which has an even number of boundary edges, then the circuit has even length.

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