Assume that the last element of the set is used as partition element in Quicksort. If n distinct elements from the set [1…n] are to be sorted, give an input for which Quicksort takes maximum time.

Find a solution to the following recurrence equation
T(n) = T(n - 1)+ n
T(1) = 1

Let P be a quicksort program to sort numbers in ascending order. Let t₁ and t₂ be the time taken by the program for the inputs [1 2 3 4] and [5 4 3 2 1], respectively. Which of the following holds?