To Determine That an Item Is Not in an Unordered

question 27

Multiple Choice

To determine that an item is not in an unordered array of 100 items, how many values must linear search examine on average?

• A) 7
• B) 10
• C) 50
• D) 100
• E) 101

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Definitions:

Degree of Freedom

The number of independent ways by which a dynamic system can move without violating any constraint applied on it, often used in statistics to determine the number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary.

Chi-square Distribution

Chi-square distribution is a distribution of the sum of squared independent random variables, used primarily in hypothesis testing for categorical data.

Chi-square Distribution

A probability distribution used in statistical analysis that is applicable when dealing with categorical data and assessing how likely observations are due to chance.

Skewed to the Right

Refers to a distribution where the tail is on the right side, indicating that the majority of data points are concentrated on the left.