What Kind of Performance Can You Expect If You Perform

question 43

Multiple Choice

What kind of performance can you expect if you perform linear search on a sorted array?

• A) The performance will be about the same as on an unsorted array
• B) The performance will be much better than on an unsorted array
• C) The performance will be much worse than on an unsorted array
• D) The performance will be worse than ⁿ² in this case
• E) none of the above

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Definitions:

Price Ratio

The ratio of the prices of two goods or services, often used in the context of trade or barter.

Elasticity of Demand

A measure of how responsive the quantity demanded is to a change in price, indicating how a product's demand will fluctuate with pricing changes.

Marginal Rate

Often refers to the incremental increase in cost or benefit associated with a one-unit change in an economic activity.

Substitution

The economic principle where consumers replace more expensive items with less costly alternatives, or when firms swap higher-priced inputs with cheaper resources.