11.2.3 - Handling Value Changes
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Practice Questions
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What is a heap?
💡 Hint: Think about the parent-child relationship.
How do we restore the heap property when increasing a value?
💡 Hint: Consider how values move in relation to their parent.
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What happens when a value in the heap is increased?
💡 Hint: Think about how increasing a value affects its position.
True or False: Dual arrays are used to keep track of vertex indices in heaps.
💡 Hint: Consider the purpose of having two mapping arrays.
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You have a max-heap with the values [50, 30, 20, 15, 10, 8, 5]. If you insert 40 and then decrease it to 25, describe the steps taken to maintain the heap property.
💡 Hint: Focus on both insertion and value modification through bubbling.
Write a complete algorithm to handle a value increase in a min-heap, including handling swaps up the tree.
💡 Hint: Consider all the conditions where swaps will need to happen.
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