A 3-ary max heap is like a binary max heap, but instead of 2 children, nodes have 3 children. A 3-ary heap can be represented by an array as follows: The root is stored in the first location, a[0], nodes in the next level, from left to right, is stored from a[1] to a[3]. The nodes from the second level of the tree from left to right are stored from a[4] location onward. An item x can be inserted into a 3-ary heap containing n items by placing x in the location a[n] and pushing it up the tree to satisfy the heap property.

Which one of the following is a valid sequence of elements in an array representing 3-ary max heap?

Let G(V, E) an undirected graph with positive edge weights. Dijkstra's single-source shortest path algorithm can be implemented using the binary heap data structure with time complexity:

Suppose there are $$\lceil \log n \rceil$$ sorted lists of $$\left\lfloor {{n \over {\log n}}} \right\rfloor $$ elements each. The time complexity of producing a sorted list of all these elements is :
(Hint : Use a heap data structure)

The elements 32, 15, 20, 30, 12, 25, 16, are inserted one by one in the given order into a max Heap. The resultant max Heap is