Consider a sequence of 14 elements: A = [-5, -10, 6, 3, -1, -2, 13, 4, -9, -1, 4, 12, -3, 0]. The subsequence sum $$S\left( {i,j} \right) = \sum\limits_{k = 1}^j {A\left[ k \right]} $$. Determine the maximum of S(i, j), where 0 ≤ i ≤ j < 14. (Divide and conquer approach may be used)

Answer : ________.

An array of 25 distinct elements is to be sorted using quicksort. Assume that the pivot element is chosen uniformly at random. The probability that the pivot element gets placed in the worst possible location in the first round of partitioning (rounded off to 2 decimal places) is ______.

Consider the following statements:

I. The smallest element in a max-heap is always at a leaf node
II. The second largest element in a max-heap is always a child of the root node
III. A max-heap can be constructed from a binary search tree in Θ(n) time
IV. A binary search tree can be constructed from a max-heap in Θ(n) time

Which of the above statements are TRUE?

There are n unsorted arrays: A₁, A₂, ..., A_n. Assume that n is odd. Each of A₁, A₂, ..., A_n contains n distinct elements. There are no common elements between any two arrays. The worst-case time complexity of computing the median of the medians of A₁, A₂, ..., A_n is