9.3 - Examples of Heaps
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Practice Questions
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What is a heap?
💡 Hint: Think about its purpose in managing priorities.
What makes a max heap?
💡 Hint: Recall the definition of a max heap.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What operation retrieves the maximum element from a heap?
💡 Hint: Think about which operation deals with the priority.
Is it true that any binary tree is a heap?
💡 Hint: Remember the properties of a heap.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a heap from the numbers [15, 10, 2, 1, 8, 5]. Describe the steps you take to build it.
💡 Hint: Be cautious about rearranging numbers as you insert.
If you have a valid heap and remove the max element. What must happen next? Create a list of steps showing the process.
💡 Hint: Visualize how the last element fills the void.
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