MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

ALGORITHMS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What approach does MergeSort use?
A
divide and conquer
B
iterative
C
search and swap
D
search and insert
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Both merge sort and quicksort employ a common algorithmic paradigm based on recursion. This paradigm, divide-and-conquer, breaks a problem into subproblems that are similar to the original problem, recursively solves the subproblems, and finally combines the solutions to the subproblems to solve the original problem.

Detailed explanation-2: -Merge sort is a divide-and-conquer algorithm based on the idea of breaking down a list into several sub-lists until each sublist consists of a single element and merging those sublists in a manner that results into a sorted list.

Detailed explanation-3: -Merge sort (sometimes spelled mergesort) is an efficient sorting algorithm that uses a divide-and-conquer approach to order elements in an array. Sorting is a key tool for many problems in computer science.

Detailed explanation-4: -Quicksort. Quicksort, invented by Tony Hoare, follows a very similar divide and conquer idea: partition into two lists and put them back together again It does more work on the divide side, less on the combine side.

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