26.1.5 - Heaps
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Practice Questions
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What is a heap?
💡 Hint: Remember the structure and purpose.
What does a Min-Heap guarantee about its parent and children?
💡 Hint: Think about the smallest value in the tree.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the time complexity of inserting an element into a heap?
💡 Hint: Think about how trees are structured.
True or False: A Max-Heap allows the parent node to be less than its children.
💡 Hint: Consider how the elements compare in a Max-Heap.
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Challenge Problems
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You have the array [4, 10, 3, 5, 1]. Build a Min-Heap from this array and show the resulting array representation.
💡 Hint: Try to construct the heap level by level while maintaining the properties.
Explain how the complexity of a sorted array compares to the performance of a heap for insertions and deletions.
💡 Hint: Think about how elements are organized in both structures.
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