SOLUTION: The prairie dogs were having a town meeting to talk about the blackfooted ferret that was terrorizing the neighborhood. One town council dog suggested building a network of tunnels

Question 1202350: The prairie dogs were having a town meeting to talk about the blackfooted ferret that was terrorizing the neighborhood. One town council dog suggested building a network of tunnels connecting every burrow to every other burrow. Then someone said Are you crazy ? We have nine burrows. Thats too many tunnels nd too much money to build them. If each tunnel cost $1.00 to build, how much would it cost the prairie dogs to connect every burrow with every other burrow
Answer by ikleyn(52786) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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To connect every of 9 burrows to every other burrow,  


     =  = 9*4 = 36 tunnels are needed.    ANSWER

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