GATE CS Programming and Data Structures questions

Consider the following C program #include<stdio.h> int main() { static int a[] = {10, 20, 30, 40, 50}; static int *p[] = {a, a+3, a+4, a+1, a+2}; int **ptr = p; ptr++; printf("%d%d", ptr-p, **ptr); } The output of the program is _______.

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

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

Given that hash table $T$ with $25$ slots that stores $2000$ elements, the load factor $a$ for $T$ 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 the following C program segment. # include <stdio.h> int main() { char s1[7] = "1234", *p; p = s1 + 2; *p = '0'; printf("%s", s1); } What will be printed by the program?

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 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 $O(n^a\log^bn)$. Then the value of $a+10b$ is __________.

Consider the following program in C language: #include <stdio.h> main() { int i; int*pi = &i; scanf("%d",pi); printf("%d\n", i+5); } Which one of the following statements is TRUE?

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a directed graph where $V$ is the set of vertices and $E$ the set of edges. Then which one of the following graphs has the same strongly connected components as $G$ ?

Consider the C function given below. int f(int j) { static int i = 50; int k; if (i == j) { printf("something"); k = f(i); return 0; } else return 0; } Which one of the following is TRUE?

Suppose a stack implementation supports an instruction $\text{REVERSE}$, which reverses the order of elements on the stack, in addition to the $\text{PUSH}$ and $\text{POP}$ instructions. Which one of the following statements is $\text{TRUE}$ (with respect to this modified stack)?

Consider the following function. double f(double x){ if( abs(x*x - 3) < 0.01) return x; else return f(x/2 + 1.5/x); } Give a value $q$ (to $2$ decimals) such that $f(q)$ will return $q$:_____.

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:

Suppose $n$ and $p$ are unsigned int variables in a C program. We wish to set $p$ to $^nC_3$. If $n$ is large, which one of the following statements is most likely to set $p$ correctly?

Consider the C function given below. Assume that the array $listA$ contains $n (>0)$ elements, sorted in ascending order. int ProcessArray(int *listA, int x, int n) { int i, j, k; i = 0; j = n-1; do { k = (i+j)/2; if (x <= listA[k]) j = k-1; if (listA[k] <= x) i = k+1; } while (i <= j); if (listA[k] == x) return(k); else return -1; } Which …

Consider the pseudocode given below. The function $DoSomething()$ takes as argument a pointer to the root of an arbitrary tree represented by the $leftMostChild-rightSibling$ representation. Each node of the tree is of type $treeNode$. typedef struct treeNode* treeptr; struct treeNode { treeptr leftMostChild, rightSibling; }; int DoSomething (treeptr …

Consider a hash table with $100$ slots. Collisions are resolved using chaining. Assuming simple uniform hashing, what is the probability that the first $3$ slots are unfilled after the first $3$ insertions?

Suppose we have a balanced binary search tree $T$ holding $n$ numbers. We are given two numbers $L$ and $H$ and wish to sum up all the numbers in $T$ that lie between $L$ and $H$. Suppose there are $m$ such numbers in $T$. If the tightest upper bound on the time to compute the sum is $O(n^a\log^bn+m^c\log^dn)$, the value of …