Let T be a full binary tree with 8 leaves. (A full binary tree has every level full). Suppose two leaves a and b of T are chosen uniformly and independently at random. The expected value of the distance between a and b in T (i.e., the number of edges in the unique path between a and b) is (rounded off to 2 decimal places) _____.

The postorder traversal of a binary tree is 8, 9, 6, 7, 4, 5, 2, 3, 1. The inorder traversal of the same tree is 8, 6, 9, 4, 7, 2, 5, 1, 3. The height of a tree is the length of the longest path from the root to any leaf. The height of the binary tree above is _______.

A queue is implemented using a non-circular singly linked list. The queue has a head pointer and a tail pointer, as shown in the figure. Let n denote the number of nodes in the queue. Let ‘enqueue’ be implemented by inserting a new node at the head, and ‘dequeue’ be implemented by deletion of a node from the tail.

Which one of the following is the time complexity of the most time-efficient implementation of ‘enqueue’ and ‘dequeue, respectively, for this data structure?

The number of possible min-heaps containing each value from {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7} exactly once is ___________.

Consider the C code fragment given below.

typedef struct node   {
    int data;
    node* next;
}   node;

void join(node* m, node* n)   {
    node*  p = n;
    while(p→next  !=NULL)    {
       p = p→next; 
    }
    p→next=m;
}

Assuming that m and n point to valid NULL-terminated linked lists, invocation of join will

Let T be a tree with 10 vertices. The sum of the degrees of all the vertices in T is _________.

The Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithm has been implemented using the queue data structure. Which one of the following is a possible order of visiting the nodes in the graph below?

The pre-order traversal of a binary search tree is given by 12, 8, 6, 2, 7, 9, 10, 16, 15, 19, 17, 20. Then the post-order traversal of this tree is:

A queue is implemented using an array such that ENQUEUE and DEQUEUE operations are performed efficiently. Which one of the following statements is CORRECT (n refers to the number of items in the queue)?

Consider the following directed graph:

The number of different topological orderings of the vertices of the graph is __________.

An operator delete(i) for a binary heap data structure is to be designed to delete the item in the i-th node. Assume that the heap is implemented in an array and i refers to the i-th index of the array. If the heap tree has depth d (number of edges on the path from the root to the farthest leaf), then what is the time complexity to re-fix the heap efficiently after the removal of the element?

Consider the weighted undirected graph with 4 vertices, where the weight of edge {i,j} is given by the entry W_ij  in the matrix W.

The largest possible integer value of x, for which at least one shortest path between some pair of vertices will contain the edge with weight x is _________.

Let Q denote a queue containing sixteen numbers and S be an empty stack. Head(Q) returns the element at the head of the queue Q without removing it from Q. Similarly Top(S) returns the element at the top of S without removing it from S. Consider the algorithm given below.

The maximum possible number of iterations of the while loop in the algorithm is _________.

Breadth First Search (BFS) is started on a binary tree beginning from the root vertex. There is a vertex t at a distance four from the root. If t is the n-th vertex in this BFS traversal, then the maximum possible value of n is _________.

N items are stored in a sorted doubly linked list. For a delete operation, a pointer is provided to the record to be deleted. For a decrease-key operation, a pointer is provided to the record on which the operation is to be performed.

An algorithm performs the following operations on the list in this order: Θ(N) delete,O(logN) insert, O(logN) find, and Θ(N) decrease-key. What is the time complexity of all these operations put together?

A complete binary min-heap is made by including each integer in [1, 1023] exactly once. The depth of a node in the heap is the length of the path from the root of the heap to that node. Thus, the root is at depth 0. The maximum depth at which integer 9 can appear is _________.

Consider the following New-order strategy for traversing a binary tree:

• Visit the root;
• Visit the right subtree using New-order;
• Visit the left subtree using New-order;

The New-order traversal of the expression tree corresponding to the reverse polish expression 3 4 * 5 – 2 ˆ 6 7 * 1 + – is given by:

The number of ways in which the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 can be inserted in an empty binary search tree, such that the resulting tree has height 6, is _________.

In an adjacency list representation of an undirected simple graph G = (V,E), each edge (u,v) has two adjacency list entries: [v] in the adjacency list of u, and [u] in the adjacency list of v. These are called twins of each other. A twin pointer is a pointer from an adjacency list entry to its twin. If |E| = m and |V| = n, and the memory size is not a constraint, what is the time complexity of the most efficient algorithm to set the twin pointer in each entry in each adjacency list?

The height of a tree is the length of the longest root-to-leaf path in it. The maximum and minimum number of nodes in a binary tree of height 5 are

Consider a max heap, represented by the array: 40, 30, 20, 10, 15, 16, 17, 8, 4.

Now consider that a value 35 is inserted into this heap. After insertion, the new heap is

A binary tree T has 20 leaves. The number of nodes in T having two children is _________.

Consider a complete binary tree where the left and the right subtrees of the root are max-heaps. The lower bound for the number of operations to convert the tree to a heap is

Which one of the following hash functions on integers will distribute keys most uniformly over 10 buckets numbered 0 to 9 for i ranging from 0 to 2020?

Assume that the bandwidth for a TCP connection is 1048560 bits/sec. Let α be the value of RTT in milliseconds (rounded off to the nearest integer) after which the TCP window scale option is needed. Let β be the maximum possible window size the window scale option. Then the values of α and β are

A Young tableau is a 2D array of integers increasing from left to right and from top to bottom. Any unfilled entries are marked with ∞, and hence there cannot be any entry to the right of, or below a ∞. The following Young tableau consists of unique entries.

1     2     5      14
3     4     6      23       
10    12    18     25  
31    ∞     ∞       ∞ 

When an element is removed from a Young tableau, other elements should be moved into its place so that the resulting table is still a Young tableau (unfilled entries may be filled in with a ∞). The minimum number of entries (other than 1) to be shifted, to remove 1 from the given Young tableau is ____________.

Given a hash table T with 25 slots that stores 2000 elements, the load factor α for T is ___________.

Consider the following array of elements. 〈89, 19, 50, 17, 12, 15, 2, 5, 7, 11, 6, 9, 100〉. The minimum number of interchanges needed to convert it into a max-heap is

While inserting the elements 71, 65, 84, 69, 67, 83 in an empty binary search tree (BST) in the sequence shown, the element in the lowest level is

The result evaluating the postfix expression  10  5 +  60 6 /  * 8 –   is

Consider a binary tree T that has 200 leaf nodes. Then, the number of nodes in T that have exactly two children are ____.

Let G be a graph with n vertices and m edges. What is the tightest upper bound on the running time of Depth First Search on G, when G is represented as an adjacency matrix?

Consider a rooted n node binary tree represented using pointers. The best upper bound on the time required to determine the number of subtrees having exactly 4 nodes is O(n^alog^bn). Then the value of a+10b is ________.

Consider the directed graph given below.

Which one of the following is TRUE?

Let P be a quicksort program to sort numbers in ascending order using the first elements as the pivot. Let t₁ and t₂ be the number of comparisons made by P for the inputs [1 2 3 4 5] and [4 1 5 3 2] respectively. Which one of the following holds?

Consider a hash table with 9 slots. The hash function is h(k) = k mod 9. The collisions are resolved by chaining. The following 9 keys are inserted in the order: 5, 28, 19, 15, 20, 33, 12, 17, 10. The maximum, minimum, and average chain lengths in the hash table, respectively, are

Consider the following C function in which size is the number of elements in the array E: The value returned by the function MyX is the

int MyX(int *E, unsigned int size)
{
    int Y = 0;
    int Z;
    int i, j, k;
    for(i = 0; i < size; i++)
        Y = Y + E[i];
    for(i = 0; i < size; i++)
        for(j = i; j < size; j++)
        {
            Z = 0;
            for(k = i; k <= j; k++)
                Z = Z + E[k];
            if (Z > Y)
                Y = Z;
        }
    return Y;
}

Consider the following pseudo code. What is the total number of multiplications to be performed?

D = 2
for i = 1 to n do
   for j = i to n do
      for k = j + 1 to n do
           D = D * 3

Consider a 6-stage instruction pipeline, where all stages are perfectly balanced. Assume that there is no cycle-time overhead of pipelining. When an application is executing on this 6-stage pipeline, the speedup achieved with respect to non-pipelined execution if 25% of the instructions incur 2 pipeline stall cycles is _________.

An access sequence of cache block addresses is of length N and contains n unique block addresses. The number of unique block addresses between two consecutive accesses to the same block address is bounded above by k. What is the miss ratio if the access sequence is passed through a cache of associativity A≥k exercising least-recently-used replacement policy?

A priority queue is implemented as a Max-Heap. Initially, it has 5 elements. The level-order traversal of the heap is: 10, 8, 5, 3, 2. Two new elements 1 and 7 are inserted into the heap in that order. The level-order traversal of the heap after the insertion of the elements is:

Consider the tree arcs of a BFS traversal from a source node W in an unweighted, connected, undirected graph. The tree T formed by the tree arcs is a data structure for computing

The worst case running time to search for an element in a balanced binary search tree with n2ⁿ elements is

The recurrence relation capturing the optimal execution time of the Towers of Hanoi problem with n discs is

Suppose a circular queue of capacity (n – 1) elements is implemented with an array of n elements. Assume that the insertion and deletion operations are carried out using REAR and FRONT as array index variables, respectively. Initially, REAR = FRONT = 0. The conditions to detect queue full and queue empty are

The height of a tree is defined as the number of edges on the longest path in the tree. The function shown in the pseudocode below is invoked as height (root) to compute the height of a binary tree rooted at the tree pointer root.

The appropriate expression for the two boxes B1 and B2 are