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… Business and Economics Problem Based Learning (PBL) Case BSc Econometrics & Operations Research The travelling student problem After successfully finishing her first year of studies in Maastricht, Sandra is planning her summer vacation. She wants to visit the eleven largest cities in the Netherlands starting from Maastricht. In the end she wants to return to Maastricht. Can you help her find a route on which she spends as little time as possible in the car? This is what is commonly known as the … ones a prize of US$ 1,000,000 will be awarded. For this case you will explore some ideas how the problem of Sandra travelling through the Netherlands can be approached. Below you see the distances between the twelve cities that Sandra is going to visit. During the tutorial meeting, please discuss your answers and ideas to the following five questions: 1. The first method you should use to find a route is the “Random Route”. Get out two dice to do this. • Start the route in Maastricht. • Roll both dice. The next city to be visited is the one whose number in the table corresponds to the sum of the two dice values. If the city has been visited already, roll the dice again. • Once all cities have been visited, return to Maastricht. Calculate the total distance of your …