MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

DATA STRUCTURES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
One important categories of algorithms:Algorithm to sort items in a certain order.
A
Search
B
Sort
C
Insert
D
Update
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Quicksort. Quicksort is one of the most efficient sorting algorithms, and this makes of it one of the most used as well. The first thing to do is to select a pivot number, this number will separate the data, on its left are the numbers smaller than it and the greater numbers on the right.

Detailed explanation-2: -Which of the following sorting algorithms can be used to sort a random linked list with minimum time complexity? Explanation: Both Merge sort and Insertion sort can be used for linked lists.

Detailed explanation-3: -Practical general sorting algorithms are almost always based on an algorithm with average time complexity (and generally worst-case complexity) O(n log n), of which the most common are heapsort, merge sort, and quicksort.

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