The sliding-tile puzzle consists of three black tiles, three white tiles, and an empty space in...

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  1. The sliding-tile puzzle consists of three black tiles, threewhite tiles, and an empty space in the configuration shown in thistable.
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The puzzle has two legal moves with associated costs:

  1. A tile may move into an adjacent empty location. This has acost of 1.
  2. A tile can hop over one or two other tiles into the emptyposition. This has a cost equal to the number of tiles jumpedover.

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The goal is to have all the white tiles to the left of all theblack tiles. The position of the blank is not important.

A Estimate/calculate a branching factor of the space and justifyyour estimation

B. How many total states need to be searched for a path of12?

C. Propose two heuristics for solving this problem and analyzethem with respect to admissibility, monotonicity, andinformedness.

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Ans AAns BAns C hn of white tiles on the wrongside of each black tileBreadthfirst search is admissible monotonic and veryuninformed    See Answer
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