Question 10701 – Data-Structures

A binary tree with n > 1 nodes has n₁, n₂ and n₃ nodes of degree one, two and three respectively. The degree of a node is defined as the number of its neighbors.
Starting with the above tree, while there remains a node v of degree two in the tree, add an edge between the two neighbors of v and then remove v from the tree. How many edges will remain at the end of the process?

Correct Answer: A