Jimmy is studying Advanced Graph Algorithms at his university. His most recent assignment is to find a maximum matching in a special kind of graph. This graph is undirected, has N vertices and each vertex has degree 3. Furthermore, the graph is 2-edge-connected (that is, at least 2 edges need to be removed in order to make the graph disconnected). A matching is a subset of the graph’s edges, such that no two edges in the subset have a common vertex. A maximum matching is a matching having the maximum cardinality.
Given a series of instances of the special graph mentioned above, find the cardinality of a maximum matching for each instance.