Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, Seventh Edition

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Chapter 11 - Section 11.4 - Spanning Trees - Exercises - Page 796: 31

Answer

Showing that every finite simple graph has a spanning forest.

Work Step by Step

-Take the union of the spanning trees of the connected components of G. - They are disjoint, - so the result is a forest.
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