An independent set of a graph G = (V, E) is a subset V’ is subset of V of vertices such that each edge in E is incident on at most one vertex in V’. The independent-set problem is to find a maximum-size independent set in G. Question: Prove that this decision problem is NP-complete. (Hint: Reduce from the clique problem or from the vertex cover problem.)

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