Correct Answer: 12
Explanation:
According to question ,
It can be seen that every city is connected to all the other cities (i.e. 3 other cities).
Step 1: Let starting point is A, there are 3 ways in which we could proceed, viz. AB, AD or AC.
Step 2: Once we are at any of these cities (B, D or C), each one of them is connected to 3 other cities. But since we cannot go back to A the originating city, there are only 2 ways in which we could proceed from here.
Step 3: let us assume that we are at B, we can only go to D or C by taking BD or BC respectively. From this point we a choice of either directly going back to A (thus skipping 4th city or go to 4th city and come back to A. )
Step 4:- Now if we are at D, we can either take DA or DCA. So there are 2 more ways to go from here.
So , total number of ways = 3 x 2 x 2 = 12 ways.
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