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This section includes 15 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Interpolation Searching Algorithm Multiple Choice knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
What are the updated values of high and low in the array if the element being searched is lower than the value at calculated index in interpolation search? (pos = current position) |
| A. | low = pos + 1, high remains unchanged |
| B. | high = pos 1, low remains unchanged |
| C. | low = low +1, high = high 1 |
| D. | low = pos +1, high = pos 1 |
| Answer» C. low = low +1, high = high 1 | |
| 2. |
What are the updated values of high and low in the array if the element being searched is greater than the value at calculated index in interpolation search? (pos = current position) |
| A. | low = pos + 1, high remains unchanged |
| B. | high = pos 1, low remains unchanged |
| C. | low = low +1, high = high 1 |
| D. | low = pos +1, high = pos 1 |
| Answer» B. high = pos 1, low remains unchanged | |
| 3. |
What is the formula used for calculating the position in interpolation search?(x = element being searched, A[] = input array, low and high are the leftmost and rightmost index of A[] respectively) |
| A. | ((x A[low]) * (high low)) / (A[high] A[low]) |
| B. | high + ((x A[low]) * (high low)) / (A[high] A[low]) |
| C. | low + ((x A[low]) * (high low)) / (A[high] A[low]) |
| D. | x + ((x A[low]) * (high low)) / (A[high] A[low]) |
| Answer» D. x + ((x A[low]) * (high low)) / (A[high] A[low]) | |
| 4. |
Interpolation search has a better time complexity than exponential search for any given array. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| Answer» C. | |
| 5. |
Interpolation search is an in place algorithm. |
| A. | true |
| B. | false |
| Answer» B. false | |
| 6. |
Which of the following searching algorithm is fastest when the input array is not sorted but has uniformly distributed values? |
| A. | jump search |
| B. | linear search |
| C. | binary search |
| D. | interpolation search |
| Answer» C. binary search | |
| 7. |
Which of the following searching algorithm is fastest when the input array is sorted but has non uniformly distributed values? |
| A. | jump search |
| B. | linear search |
| C. | binary search |
| D. | interpolation search |
| Answer» D. interpolation search | |
| 8. |
Which of the following searching algorithm is fastest when the input array is sorted and has uniformly distributed values? |
| A. | jump search |
| B. | exponential search |
| C. | binary search |
| D. | interpolation search |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9. |
What is the time complexity of exponential search when the input array is sorted but the values are not uniformly distributed? |
| A. | O(n<sup>1/2</sup>) |
| B. | O(log log n) |
| C. | O(n) |
| D. | O(log n) |
| Answer» D. O(log n) | |
| 10. |
What is the auxiliary space requirement of interpolation search? |
| A. | O(n) |
| B. | O(2<sup>n</sup>) |
| C. | O(1) |
| D. | O(log n) |
| Answer» D. O(log n) | |
| 11. |
What is the time complexity of interpolation search when the input array has uniformly distributed values and is sorted? |
| A. | O(n) |
| B. | O(log log n) |
| C. | O(n log n) |
| D. | O(log n) |
| Answer» C. O(n log n) | |
| 12. |
In which of the following case jump search performs better than interpolation search? |
| A. | When array has uniformly distributed values but is not sorted |
| B. | when array is sorted and has uniform distribution of values |
| C. | when array is sorted but the values increases exponentially |
| D. | when array is not sorted |
| Answer» D. when array is not sorted | |
| 13. |
Interpolation search performs better than binary search when? |
| A. | array has uniformly distributed values but is not sorted |
| B. | array is sorted and has uniform distribution of values |
| C. | array is sorted but the values are not uniformly distributed |
| D. | array is not sorted |
| Answer» C. array is sorted but the values are not uniformly distributed | |
| 14. |
Interpolation search is a variation of? |
| A. | Linear search |
| B. | Binary search |
| C. | Jump search |
| D. | Exponential search |
| Answer» C. Jump search | |
| 15. |
Which of the following is the most desirable condition for interpolation search? |
| A. | array should be sorted |
| B. | array should not be sorted but the values should be uniformly distributed |
| C. | array should have a less than 64 elements |
| D. | array should be sorted and the values should be uniformly distributed |
| Answer» E. | |