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PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY
BENGALURU

School Of Computer Science and Engineering & Information Science

Summer term End-Term Examinations, August 2024

Odd Semester: 2023 - 24

Date: 5/08/2024
Course Code: CSA2001
Time: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Course Name: Data Structures and Algorithms
Max Marks: 100
Department: CSE & IS
Weightage: 50%

Instructions:
(i) Read all questions carefully and answer accordingly.
(ii) Do not write anything on the question paper other than the roll number.

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a. What is data structure? Explain various types of data structures in detail. 4 O L1
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b. What is bubble sort? Explain the advantages and disadvantages of bubble sort. 6 O L2
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c. What is selection sort. Explain algorithm of selection sort with an example C
array. 10 O L3
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a. List out the areas in which data structures are applied extensively. 4 O L1
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b. Write a c program to extract a substring from the given string. 6 O L2
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c. What do you mean by the complexity of an algorithm? Explain the meaning of C
worst-case analysis and best-case analysis with an example. 10 O L3
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a. Write and explain POP operation algorithm of a stack. L
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 b. Consider size of stack as 5.Apply following operation on stack and show the status of
stack and top pointer after each operation . i ) push a , b, c ii) pop iii) push e,f iv) pop C
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v) push g h vi)push m vii)pop 2

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c. Convert the following infix expression to postfix using stack (A+B*C)/(D-E)+F 1 L
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a. Write the algorithm for converting from infix to post-fix. C L

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b. Explain stack data structure and write an algorithm to push and pop an element to C
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and from the stack. 6
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c. What are queues? Write down an algorithm for inserting and deleting elements from C
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a queue implemented using arrays. 0 3

a. Differentiate between List and array in four points. CO L

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b. Define linked list. Explain different types of linked list. Mention the advantage of CO L
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linked list? 3 2
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c. What is a linked list? Give the data structure and write algorithms to
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(i) Delete an element. (ii) Count the number of elements. 0 3 3

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a. Write down the steps to modify a node in linked lists. CO L

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b. Write an algorithm to insert a node at the beginning of the list. 3 2
c. Explain the insertion operation in linked list. How nodes are inserted after a specified 1 CO L
node. 0 3 3

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a. Define: binary tree, complete binary tree, strict binary tree. L
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b. Construct binary search tree for following data: 6, 8, 33, 3, 40, 2, 9, 10, 22, 15, and C
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17. Consider 10 as root. 6 O
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c. Show the result of inserting 3,1,4,6,9,2,5,7 into an initially empty binary search tree. C
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Also write down the result of 3 traversals on this binary search tree. O
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a. What is Binary search tree? Write the application areas that use a binary search tree.
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b. Write an algorithm for the following
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1) In order tree traversal
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 2) Pre order tree traversal
3) Post order tree traversal

C. Given the following inorder and preorder traversal reconstruct a binary tree

Inorder – D,G,B,E,A,F,I,C 10 CO4 L3

Preorder – A,B,D,E,H,C,F,I

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a. Write a C program to find the factorial of a given number. L
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b. Explain the classification of data structure and operations on data structures. L
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c. Why do we use asympatotic notation in the study of algorithm? Describe commonly C
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used asymptotic notation and give their significance. O
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a. List two sort methods. Give example of each. C L

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b. Explain stack data structure and write algorithm to push and pop an element to C L
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and from the stack. O2 2
0 c. What are queues? Write down algorithm for inserting and deleting elements from
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a queue implemented using arrays. 0 O2 3

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