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Before talking about the routing and routed protocols, look at the screen shot from Google map. How many way to reach from point A to Point B? 
Okay, you don’t need to count. There are plenty of ways. isn’t it? how will you select the right path from point A to Point B? We may consider different aspects for this - fast way, way with low transportation charge, etc.
Routing protocol doing the same thing. There may be several paths in the network to reach from one point to another. First path used to transfer data from point A to point B may not be available next time. So the role of routing protocol is here. Routing protocol dynamically find out the best path for the data transfer. As we use different aspects for selecting the way, routing protocol uses something called metrics, which may be bandwidth of the path, number of routers between the path etc.
Examples of routing protocol are OSPF, EIGRP etc.
Now what is routed protocol? Routed protocol is like the car or bus which carry us from one point A to point B. That is, routed protocol is the carrier of data.
Examples of routed protocol are IP, IPX etc.
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