A combinatoric problem of real life.

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The discussion centers on the combinatorial analysis of directed graphs derived from a given adjacency list. The adjacency list provided includes 7 vertices and 15 unique edges. It is established that if cycles are not allowed, the number of directed graphs that can be formed is 2^15, equating to 32,768 possible configurations. Additionally, the existence of source and sink vertices is confirmed, with a focus on calculating the probability of each vertex becoming a source or sink.

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Here is an adjacency list of a graph:

1(2,4,5)
2(1,3,4,5,6,7)
3(2,5,6,7)
4(1,2,5)
5(1,2,3,4,6,7)
6(2,3,5,7)
7(2,3,5,6)

How many direct graphs, can this graph generates?

If cycles are not allowed, how many direct graph can we form? (The cycle is if we start from a vertex follow the dirction of every edge, we can go through vertices not all of them and back to the original vertex we started.)

If cycles are not allowed, there is always the existence of sink and source vertices. ( sink is a vertex all directions are point into this vertex, source is just the opposite of sink.)

How to work out the probabiliy for every single vertex to become a source or sink. And thanks to the helps you guys offered me last year, I got a good mark on discrete maths. By the way, this's not my assignment. I just applying things I learned to make some tricky propositions.
 
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how many directed graphs? huh? would you like to reiterate the question?
are we assuming that we can remove some of these edge or that the adjacency list is directed/unidirected?
 
The adjacency list is a simple graph list, has no any direction. If we add two possible dirctions to every edge, then, I think we got 2^15 directed graphs, since there are 15 unique edges.

How about the rest of the question? I cannot figure out.
 

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