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3. Proof that an undirected graph has an even number of vertices of odd degree.

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Let G be a graph with e edges and n vertices v1,v2,v3,...,vn.

Since each edge is incident on two vertices, it contributes 2 to the sum of degree of vertices in graph G. Thus the sum of degrees of all vertices in G is twice the number of edges in G:∑^n_{i=1}degree(v_i)=2e


Let the degrees of first r vertices be even and the remaining (n−r) vertices have odd degrees, then:

∑^n_{i=1}degree(v_i)=∑^r_{i=1}degree(v_i)+∑^n_{i=r+1}degree(v_i)


\implies ∑^n_{i=1}degree(v_i)+∑^r_{i=1}degree(v_i)


\implies ∑^n_{i=r+1}degree(v_i) is even.


But, the for i=r+1,r+2,...,n each d(v_i) is odd. So, the number of terms in

∑^n_{i=r+1}degree(v_i) must be even. So, (n-r) is even.

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