1.2 - Use Case: Air Traffic Control
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Practice Questions
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What is a min-heap?
💡 Hint: Think about the root element in a tree.
Explain what a priority queue does.
💡 Hint: Consider how flight requests are handled.
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What is the primary function of a min-heap in air traffic control?
💡 Hint: Think about how requests are prioritized.
True or False: A binary search tree always keeps its elements in sorted order.
💡 Hint: Consider what happens during an in-order traversal.
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Consider a situation where 10 different flights request takeoff and landing in a short time frame. Create a data structure that would effectively manage these requests while implementing a separation time of 3 minutes between each.
💡 Hint: Think about how BSTs can help both in sorting and searching.
How would the efficiency of your system change if instead of a binary search tree, you used an unsorted array? Discuss the performance implications.
💡 Hint: Reflect on how the ordering of data impacts the operations.
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