GATE CS Searching, Sorting, Hashing questions

A hash table with ten buckets with one slot per bucket is shown in the following figure. The symbols $S1$ to $S7$ initially entered using a hashing function with linear probing. The maximum number of comparisons needed in searching an item that is not present is

Let $P$ be a quicksort program to sort numbers in ascending order. Let $t_{1}$ and $t_{2}$ be the time taken by the program for the inputs $\left[1 \ 2 \ 3 \ 4\right]$ and $\left[5 \ 4 \ 3 \ 2 \ 1\right]$, respectively. Which of the following holds?