Consider the following C functions:

int f1(int n){
 if(n == 0 || n == 1){
    return n;
 }
 return (2 * f1(n - 1) + 3 * f1(n - 2));
}
int f2(int n){
 int i;
 int X[N], Y[N], Z[N];
 X[0] = Y[0] = Z[0] = 0;
 X[1] = 1; Y[1] = 2; Z[1] = 3;
 for(i = 2; i <= n; i++){
  X[i] = Y[i - 1] + Z[i - 2];
  Y[i] = 2 * X[i];
  Z[i] = 3 * X[i];
 }
 return X[n];
}

f1(8) and f2(8) return the values

We have a binary heap on n elements and wish to insert n more elements (not necessarily one after another) into this heap. The total time required for this is

Consider the Quicksort algorithm. Suppose there is a procedure for finding a pivot element which splits the list into two sub-lists each of which contains at least one-fifth of the elements. Let T(n) be the number of comparisons required to sort n elements. Then

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