What is a common application of BFS?

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What is a common application of BFS?
  1. Topological Sorting
  2. Cycle Detection
  3. Finding Connected Components
  4. Finding Shortest Path in Weighted Graphs

Questions & Step-by-Step Solutions

What is a common application of BFS?
  • Step 1: Understand what BFS stands for. BFS means Breadth-First Search, which is a way to explore graphs.
  • Step 2: Know what a graph is. A graph is made up of nodes (or vertices) and edges (connections between nodes).
  • Step 3: Learn about unweighted graphs. An unweighted graph means that all edges are treated equally, with no specific cost or weight.
  • Step 4: Identify what connected components are. Connected components are groups of nodes in a graph where there is a path between any two nodes in the same group.
  • Step 5: Realize how BFS helps. BFS starts at a node and explores all its neighbors before moving to the next level of neighbors, which helps in finding all nodes connected to the starting node.
  • Step 6: Conclude that BFS can be used to find all connected components by starting BFS from each unvisited node until all nodes are visited.
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