Number of iterations: 10,000
After several test runs, I was able to come up with 3.15 as the shortest tour distance for a particular set of data. I quickly found it using a mutation rate of 0.04. This is also the same shortest tour found using a mutation rate of 0.04 using the distance method.
The following graph gives shows us the range of tour fitness for each generation. This graph only shows us the first 1,000 generations, but we can see that the line that represents tour with the smallest fitness has a negative slope.
The following table shows us the average tour distance (of 10 runs) for each mutation rate.
| Mutation Rate | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.06 |
| Avg. Distance | 5.52 | 4.12 | 4.01 | 4.02 |