If You Have a 1000-Element Balanced Binary Search Tree, What

question 17

Multiple Choice

If you have a 1000-element balanced binary search tree, what is the maximum number of comparisons that may be needed to find an element in the tree?

• A) 500
• B) 20
• C) 10
• D) 8

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