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Topic: Graph Theory-trees
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maths123

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Registered: 5/28/11
Graph Theory-trees
Posted: May 28, 2011 10:03 AM
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Problem is: For n greater than or equal to 3, find the number of trees with vertex set {1,2,...,n} with exactly n-2 leaves exactly.

I just applied Cayleys theorem there are n^n-2 trees on that vertex set because there are n^n-2 sequences of length n-2 from the vertex set.

I think this is wrong but cant think of another way to do the problem?

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