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A robotic laser must drill holes on five sites (A, B, C, D, and E) in a microprocessor chip. At the end, the laser must return to its starting position A and start all over.
a. Find the cheapest-link tour and its length.
b. Given that the tour A, D, B, E, C, A is an optimal tour, find the relative error of the cheapest-link tour found in (a).
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