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Solution to part (b): Breadth-first search
- What is the final path found?
s -> a -> b -> g.
- How many nodes were expanded?
9.
- Explain why it selected
nodes during the search that were not on the shortest path from s to
g.
It selects all nodes that are two steps from the start node,
irrespective of where the goal is, before it expands nodes that are
three steps away and finds the goal.
- Explain why it may have been led astray in the final solution.
It finds the path with the fewest arcs, not the shortest path.
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