A research student is given a singly-linked list. Each node of the list has a color, which is either “Black” or “White”. He must find if there are more black nodes than white nodes, or vice versa. His advisor gives him 5,000Rs to buy a computer to do the work. He goes to the computer store and finds a slightly defective computer which costs a mere 3,000Rs. This computer has the small problem of not being able to do arithmetic. This means that he cannot use a counter to count the nodes in the list to determine the majority color. The computer is otherwise fully functional. He has the evil idea that he could buy the defective computer and somehow use it to do his work, so that he can use the rest of the money on enjoyment. Show how he can accomplish this amazing task. Write code for an algorithm called ‘findMajorityColor’ which takes a singly-linked list, L, with n nodes and returns the majority color among nodes of L. This algorithm should have the same asymptotic running time as counting the nodes (O(n)). Note: No arithmetic is allowed.

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Min-Max Write an algorithm that finds both the smallest and largest numbers in a list of n numbers and with complexity T(n) is at most about (1.5)n comparisons.

10 Answers   ABC, College School Exams Tests, ITC Infotech, Kyambogo University, Qatar University,

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1+1/2!+1/3!+...+1/n!

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Complexity T(n) Write a linear-time algorithm that sorts n distinct integers, each of which is between 1 and 500. Hint: Use a 500-element array. (Linear-time means your algorithm runs in time c*n + b, where c and b are any constants that do not depend on n. For example, your algorithm can run in time n, or time 2n + 1, or time 5n + 10, or time 100n + 6, but not time c*n*n = c*n?.)

1 Answers   Qatar University,

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Seat Reservation prog for the theatre. Write a function for seat allocation for the movie tickets. Total no of seats available are 200. 20 in each row. Each row is referred by the Character, "A" for the first row and 'J' for the last. And each seat in a row is represented by the no. 1-20. So seat in diffrent rows would be represented as A1,A2....;B1,B2.....;........J1,J2... Each cell in the table represent either 0 or 1. 0 rep would seat is available , 1 would represent seat is reserved. Booking should start from the last row (J) to the first row(A). At the max 20 seats can be booked at a time. if seats are available, then print all the seat nos like "B2" i.e (2 row, 3 col) otherwise Print "Seats are not available." and we must book consecutive seats only.

1 Answers   Nagarro,

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Coin Problem You are given 9 gold coins that look identical. One is counterfeit and weighs a bit greater than the others, but the difference is very small that only a balance scale can tell it from the real one. You have a balance scale that costs 25 USD per weighing. Give an algorithm that finds the counterfeit coin with as little weighting as possible. Of primary importance is that your algorithm is correct; of secondary importance is that your algorithm truly uses the minimum number of weightings possible. HINT: THE BEST ALGORITHM USES ONLY 2 WEIGHINGS!!!

1 Answers   Motorola, Qatar University,

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Code for Method of Handling Factorials of Any Size?

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Wrie a function which returns the most frequent number in a list of integers. Handle the case of more than one number which meets this criterion. public static int[] GetFrequency(int[] list)

3 Answers   Nagarro,

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write a program using 2 D that searches a number and display the number of items 12 inputs values input 15,20, 13, 30, 38, 40,16, 18, 20 ,18 ,20 enter no. to search : 20

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. Write a program using two-dimensional arrays that computes the sum of data in tows and the sum of data in columns of the 3x3 (three by three) array variable n[3][3].

2 Answers   IBM,

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What output does this program generate as shown? Why? class A { A() { cout << "A::A()" << endl; } ~A() { cout << "A::~A()" << endl; throw "A::exception"; } }; class B { B() { cout << "B::B()" << endl; throw "B::exception"; } ~B() { cout << "B::~B()"; } }; int main(int, char**) { try { cout << "Entering try...catch block" << endl; A objectA; B objectB; cout << "Exiting try...catch block" << endl; } catch (char* ex) { cout << ex << endl; } return 0; }

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write a program in c++ to scramble a bmp image file using a scramble key 0x7c and an XOR logic. print out the original image, the scrambled image and the program. Note: the first 24bytes of a bmp file contain the header information of the file.

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