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2 Negative weight edges Professor Gecko suggests that we deal with graphs with negative weight edges in the following way: 1. Scan the adjacency list and find the most negative edge weight, call it 2. Add r +1 to the weight of each edge. Then, each edge will have positive weight 3. We run whatever algorithm we want that works for graphs wit h non-negative edge weights Subtract +1 from the weight of each edge to return each edge weight to its original value. Note that the modifications in Steps 1, 2 and 4 can be completed in O(VE) time, so they can be accomplished efficiently. Do the following: a. Argue that Professor Gecko’s suggestion works for the miniminn spanning tree problem i.e., when “whatever algorithm” is Prim’s algorithm.) b. Argue that Professor Gecko’s suggestion does not work for the single-source shortest path problem (ie, when whatever algorithuni” is Dijkstra’s algorithm.) Show transcribed image text 2 Negative weight edges Professor Gecko suggests that we deal with graphs with negative weight edges in the following way: 1. Scan the adjacency list and find the most negative edge weight, call it 2. Add r +1 to the weight of each edge. Then, each edge will have positive weight 3. We run whatever algorithm we want that works for graphs wit h non-negative edge weights Subtract +1 from the weight of each edge to return each edge weight to its original value. Note that the modifications in Steps 1, 2 and 4 can be completed in O(VE) time, so they can be accomplished efficiently. Do the following: a. Argue that Professor Gecko’s suggestion works for the miniminn spanning tree problem i.e., when “whatever algorithm” is Prim’s algorithm.) b. Argue that Professor Gecko’s suggestion does not work for the single-source shortest path problem (ie, when whatever algorithuni” is Dijkstra’s algorithm.)

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