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(a) What is the maximum degree of a vertex in a simple graph with n vertices?...

(a) What is the maximum degree of a vertex in a simple graph with n vertices?

(b) What is the maximum number of edges in a simple graph of n vertices?

(c) Given a natural number n, does there exist a simple graph with n vertices and the maximum number of edges?

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