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Suppose there are 90 small towns in a country. From each town there is a direct bus route to at least 50 towns. Is it possible to go from one town to any other town by bus possibly changing from one bus and then taking another bus to another town?

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Suppose there are 90 small towns in a country. From each town there is a direct bus route to at least 50 towns. Is it possible to go from one town to any other town by bus possibly changing from one bus and then taking another bus to another town?

Represent a town by a node and a bus route by an edge. If there is a bus route between two towns, there will be ...

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