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Dynamic Programming for Activity Selection

Exercise 17.1-1

1.
Optimal substructure (already proven)
2.
Recursive, overlapping problems (need to show this)
3.
Bottom-up algorithm
4.
Compute solution

Recursive Algorithm -- find all possible compatible subsets, notice repeated subproblems.



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The number of distinct subproblems is exponential (the power set), so Dynamic Programming is not a good idea.


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