Practice - Examples of heaps
Practice Questions
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What is a priority queue?
💡 Hint: Think about contexts where tasks are ranked by importance.
Describe a max-heap.
💡 Hint: Consider the arrangement of values within the tree.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What defines a max-heap?
💡 Hint: Think about how the maximum value is positioned in the structure.
True or False: Heaps can be used to implement a priority queue.
💡 Hint: Consider how priorities influence the order of processes.
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Challenge Problems
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You have the following elements to insert into a max-heap: 50, 20, 60, 25, 30. Describe the process for how these would be inserted, including the final structure of the heap.
💡 Hint: Focus on where each value must be placed to keep parent values larger than children.
Given a max-heap structured as follows, remove the root and detail the adjustments made during the process: {70, 50, 60, 40, 30, 20, 10}.
💡 Hint: Which child is the largest to swap at each step?
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