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It is known that every planar graph can be colored with four colors, where no two adjacent vertices have the same color. Is i
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NO , IT IS NOT TRUE THAT EVERY NON-PLANAR GRAPH REQUIRES MORE THAN 4 COLORS.

EXAMPLE - K3,3  IS NON-PLANAR AND BIPARTITE GRAPH WHICH IS 2 COLORABLE.

  K3,3 is 2 colorable because every bipartite graph is 2 colorable as the vertex set of bipartite graph can be divided into 2 sets say (X and Y) such that there is no edge between vertices of X and no edge between vertices of Y.

so none of the vertex of X is adjacent to other vertex of X , so all the vertices of X can be assigned one color say red.

similarly , none of the vertex of Y is adjacent to other vertex of Y , so all the vertices of Y can be assigned one color which is different from the previous color say blue.

so the bipartite graphs are 2 colorable and hence  K3,3 is 2 colorable which is non-planar

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