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Resource Type: Contest Problem
Primary Level: Undergraduate
The Communications Network Problem
Author: COMAP
Background:
In your company, information is shared among departments on a daily basis. This information includes the previous day’s sales statistics and cur- rent production guidance. It is important to get this information out as quickly as possible.
Suppose that a communications network is to be used to transfer blocks of data (files) from one computer to another. As an example, consider the graph model.
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MCM Problem
Commentary: Yes (2) | Student Papers: Yes (1)
Mathematics Topics:
Math Modeling
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