Which Statement About Handling Collisions in a Hash Table Using

question 4

Multiple Choice

Which statement about handling collisions in a hash table using the open addressing technique is correct?

• A) A colliding element will always be contiguous to the location in which it would normally be placed.
• B) To find an element, you must search from the hash code location until a match or an element with a different hash code is found.
• C) To remove an element, you simply empty the slot at which you find it.
• D) There may be some elements with different hash codes that lie on the same probing sequence.

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