Dr Bees likes bees. Dr Bee is just not his actual identify, however that’s how all people calls him.

I ought to truly say that he’s obsessive about bees. Bees are his entire life. He is aware of all the pieces about them. Anything anybody printed out about bees, he is aware of.

He by no means discovered the alphabet previous the second letter.

Anyway. He made a fortune finding one of the best honey you might discover anyplace on the earth and promoting it to individuals who can afford to pay ridiculous costs for a minuscule jar of honey. He desires to speculate his cash.

His newest venture is the lodge for bee lovers. He famous that there is no bee-themed lodge, which he sees as an enormous and untapped market alternative. I imply, who does not like bees? Who would not wish to spend an evening surrounded by the delicate buzzing of bees? Or higher, who would not wish to reside like a bee for a nights? So he determined that he would construct the primary lodge for bee lovers.

He pays a go to to an architect pal and brings alongside the idea he drafted for his lodge. A big lodge with 127 rooms within the form of a beehive.

The architect seems on the plan and tries to not giggle.

• Is it a lodge for … bees?
• No, no! This is a lodge for individuals. But I acquired my inspiration from an precise beehive. The rooms are hexagonal to reduce the size of the partitions. Inside I needed to indicate individuals. But I by no means managed to attract individuals.
• Don’t fear, I do know you all too effectively. But I see an issue. Real individuals do not fly. How are they going to go in or out of the lodge rooms?
• I’d say “with the bees, do just like the bees”. But I see your level. I did not consider that. Can you repair that?
• I believe so. First you want an entry someplace on the outer wall. Then you’ll have to substitute some rooms with hallways. Every room have to be adjoining to a hallway and the hallways should present a path from the room to the lodge entry.
• I see. But that’s not good. People pay for the rooms, not for the hallways. These hallways are simply upkeep and no income. How many hallways do I would like? I imply, what’s the absolute minimal variety of rooms I have to convert to hallways to make my lodge usable for actual individuals?
• Hmm. That is an efficient query. I must seek the advice of with my spouse. She is nice at this stuff.

So, pricey reader, how would you resolve Dr. Bee’s drawback?

• You can see a preliminary plan of the lodge. Bees characterize lodge rooms.
• You have to interchange various rooms with halways with a view to present a path from every room to a single important entry. This signifies that the hallways should type a connex area and at the very least on of them should lie on the perimeter of the hexagon.
• Every remaining room have to be adjoining to at the very least one hallway.
• The variety of hallways have to be minimal.

So, what’s the minimal of hallways the lodge wants? Show how it may be carried out.

This is my very own creation. I’ve an answer, I’m curious to see if yow will discover a greater one.