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Graph Algorithms · Hard problem

Six warehouses 11–66 can be linked by cables with costs (in thousands of dollars) 12:512{:}5, 13:913{:}9, 14:314{:}3, 23:423{:}4, 25:825{:}8, 34:634{:}6, 35:735{:}7, 46:246{:}2, 56:1056{:}10. Instead of the CHEAPEST way to connect all six warehouses, a rival planner wants the costliest possible set of 55 cables that still connects all six warehouses without wasting a cable on a cycle (a maximum spanning tree). What is that greatest possible total cost?