Which Statement Is False

question 12

Multiple Choice

Which statement is false?

• A) In a tightly packed binary tree, each level contains about twice as many elements as the previous level.
• B) When searching a tightly packed 1,000,000-element binary search tree, approximately 20 comparisons need to be made.
• C) The level-order traversal of a binary tree visits the nodes of the tree row-by-row starting at the root node level.
• D) Searching a binary tree for a value that matches a key value is slow for loosely packed trees.

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