Consider the string abbccddeee. Each letter in the string must be assigned a binary code satisfying the following properties:

1. For any two letters, the code assigned to one letter must not be a prefix of the code assigned to the other letter.

2. For any two letters of the same frequency, the letter which occurs earlier in the dictionary order is assigned a code whose length is at most the length of the code assigned to the other letter.

Among the set of all binary code assignments which satisfy the above two properties, what is the minimum length of the encoded string? 

Let G = (V, E) be a weighted undirected graph and let T be a Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) of G maintained using adjacency lists. Suppose a new weighted edge (u, v) $$ \in $$ V $$ \times $$ V is added to G. The worst case time complexity of determining if T is still an MST of the resultant graph is

Consider a graph G = (V, E), where V = {v₁, v₂, ...., v₁₀₀},
E = {(v_i, v_j) | 1 ≤ i < j ≤ 100}, and weight of the edge (v_i, v_j) is |i - j|. The weight of the minimum spanning tree of G is ______.

Consider the weights and values of items listed below. Note that there is only one unit of each item.

Item number	Weight (in Kgs)	Value (in Rupees)
1	10	60
2	7	28
3	4	20
4	2	24

The task is to pick a subset of these items such that their total weight is no more than $$11$$ $$Kgs$$ and their total value is maximized. Moreover, no item may be split. The total value of items picked by an optimal algorithm is denoted by $$V$$_opt. A greedy algorithm sorts the items by their value-to-weight ratios in descending order and packs them greedily, starting from the first item in the ordered list. The total value of items picked by the greedy algorithm is denoted by $$V$$_greedy.

The value of $$V$$_opt $$−$$ $$V$$_greedy is ____________.