Consider all scenarios in which we have a city on a flat plane in which all roads are straight lines; the points at which two (or more) roads meet are called junctions; and we have two points A and B that are accessible from each other by road.In this question you have to determine whether the following statement is true or false.Among all possible routes between A and B, the shortest route goes through the fewest number of junctions.The following points may be helpful:Consider using a pen and paper to draw a few maps when thinking about this problem.The statement is about all possible scenarios, not just a particular city map that you may happen to draw. The statement is about all maps imaginable (with the above-mentioned properties). Obviously you cannot draw all possible maps, so you need to reason about this problem.The statement is true if you can convince yourself that it holds in all possible maps for all possible pairs of locations A and B. The statement is false if you can draw a map in which the statement does not hold.You can assume all distances are finite.Is the statement true or false?
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Consider all scenarios in which we have a city on a flat plane in which all roads are straight lines; the points at which two (or more) roads meet are called junctions; and we have two points A and B that are accessible from each other by road.In this question you have to determine whether the following statement is true or false.Among all possible routes between A and B, the shortest route goes through the fewest number of junctions.The following points may be helpful:Consider using a pen and paper to draw a few maps when thinking about this problem.The statement is about all possible scenarios, not just a particular city map that you may happen to draw. The statement is about all maps imaginable (with the above-mentioned properties). Obviously you cannot draw all possible maps, so you need to reason about this problem.The statement is true if you can convince yourself that it holds in all possible maps for all possible pairs of locations A and B. The statement is false if you can draw a map in which the statement does not hold.You can assume all distances are finite.Is the statement true or false?
Solution
The statement is false. Here's why:
Consider a scenario where point A and point B are connected by a straight road, but there is also a longer, winding road connecting them that goes through fewer junctions. In this case, the shortest route (the straight road) does not go through the fewest number of junctions.
Therefore, it is not always true that the shortest route between two points goes through the fewest number of junctions.
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