Practice Comparative Strategy for Sorting - 19.2.2 | 19. Mergesort - Part A | Data Structures and Algorithms in Python
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Question 1

Easy

What is merge sort?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think of how it divides the list.

Question 2

Easy

What do we do when one of the lists to merge is empty?

πŸ’‘ Hint: What happens if there's nothing to merge?

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Question 1

What algorithm does merge sort utilize?

  • Dynamic Programming
  • Greedy Technique
  • Divide and Conquer
  • Brute Force

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how it breaks down the problem.

Question 2

Merge sort is more efficient than which of the following for large lists?

  • Insertion Sort
  • Selection Sort
  • Bubble Sort
  • All of the above

πŸ’‘ Hint: Recall the performance of each algorithm for large inputs.

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

Demonstrate merge sort on the array [38, 27, 43, 3, 9, 82, 10], showing each step of the divide and merge process.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Keep breaking down until you have single elements, then start merging them back.

Question 2

Write a Python function to implement merge sort for a list of integers, including handling edge cases.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Remember to handle scenarios where lists may be already sorted.

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