GATE CS Algorithm Design: Greedy Techniques questions

​​​​Consider an array $\mathrm{X}$ that contains $\mathrm{n}$ positive integers. A subarray of $\mathrm{X}$ is defined to be a sequence of array locations with consecutive indices. The $\mathrm{C}$ code snippet given below has been written to compute the length of the longest subarray of $\mathrm{X}$ that contains at most two distinct integers. The …

Define $R_n$ to be the maximum amount earned by cutting a rod of length $n$ meters into one or more pieces of integer length and selling them. For $i>0$, let $p[i]$ denote the selling price of a rod whose length is $i$ meters. Consider the array of prices: …

Consider the string $\textrm{abbccddeee}$. Each letter in the string must be assigned a binary code satisfying the following properties: For any two letters, the code assigned to one letter must not be a prefix of the code assigned to the other letter. For any two letters of the same frequency, the letter which occurs earlier in the dictionary order is …

Consider a sequence of $14$ elements: $A=[-5, -10, 6, 3, -1, -2, 13, 4, -9, -1, 4, 12, -3, 0]$. The sequence sum $S(i,j) = \Sigma_{k=i}^j A[k]$. Determine the maximum of $S(i,j)$, where $0 \leq i \leq j <14$. (Divide and conquer approach may be used.) Answer: ___________

Consider the weights and values of items listed below. Note that there is only one unit of each item. …

Consider the following table: …

A message is made up entirely of characters from the set $X=\{P, Q, R, S, T\}$. The table of probabilities for each of the characters is shown below: …

Match the following: …

Given below are some algorithms, and some algorithm design paradigms. …

There are $5$ bags labeled $1$ to $5$. All the coins in a given bag have the same weight. Some bags have coins of weight $10$ gm, others have coins of weight $11$ gm. I pick $1, 2, 4, 8, 16$ coins respectively from bags $1$ to $5$ Their total weight comes out to $323$ gm. Then the product of the labels of the bags having $11$ gm coins is …

Suppose the letters $a, \,b, \,c, \,d, \,e, \,f$ have probabilities $\dfrac{1}{2}, \dfrac{1}{4}, \dfrac{1}{8}, \dfrac{1}{16}, \dfrac{1}{32}, \dfrac{1}{32}$, respectively. What is the average length of the Huffman code for the letters $a, \,b, \,c, \,d, \,e, \,f$?

Suppose the letters $a, \,b, \,c, \,d, \,e, \,f$ have probabilities $\frac{1}{2}, \frac{1}{4}, \frac{1}{8}, \frac{1}{16}, \frac{1}{32}, \frac{1}{32}$, respectively. Which of the following is the Huffman code for the letter $a, \,b, \,c, \,d, \,e, \,f$?

An element in an array $X$ is called a leader if it is greater than all elements to the right of it in $X$. The best algorithm to find all leaders in an array

We are given $9$ tasks $T_1, T_2, \dots, T_9$. The execution of each task requires one unit of time. We can execute one task at a time. Each task $T_i$ has a profit $P_i$ and a deadline $d_i$. Profit $P_i$ is earned if the task is completed before the end of the $d_i^{th}$ unit of time. …

We are given $9$ tasks $T_1, T_2, \dots, T_9$. The execution of each task requires one unit of time. We can execute one task at a time. Each task $T_i$ has a profit $P_i$ and a deadline $d_i$. Profit $P_i$ is earned if the task is completed before the end of the $d_i^{th}$ unit of time. …

The following are the starting and ending times of activities $A, B, C, D, E, F, G$ and $H$ respectively in chronological order: $“a_s \: b_s \: c_s \: a_e \: d_s \: c_e \: e_s \: f_s \: b_e \: d_e \: g_s \: e_e \: f_e \: h_s \: g_e \: h_e”$. Here, $x_s$ denotes the starting time and $x_e$ denotes the ending time of activity X. We need to schedule …

The minimum number of record movements required to merge five files A (with $10$ records), B (with $20$ records), C (with $15$ records), D (with $5$ records) and E (with $25$ records) is:

A language uses an alphabet of six letters, $\left\{a, b, c, d, e, f\right\}$. The relative frequency of use of each letter of the alphabet in the language is as given below: …