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In an automated electric utility meter reading system, meters from several customers are linked wirelessly to a single receiver. The meter sends monthly signals to a designated receiver to report Table 2: Linkage of receiver and meters Receiver 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Meter 1,2,3 2,3,9 5,6,7 7,9,10 3,6,8 1,4,7,9 4,5,9 1,4,8 8 the customer's consumption of electricity. The receiver then sends the data to a central computer to generate the electricity bills. The problem reduces to determining the least number of receivers needed to serve a number of customers. In real life, even though this problem encompasses Page 2 of 3 thousands of meters and receivers, for the purpose of this problem, consider the case of 10 meters and 8 receivers, using the configuration in Table 2.