CSSE 230
Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis

Homework 8  - 30 points

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1. (10 points) Weiss Exercise 19.8 (ignore the "with proof" part). (We hope this looks familiar to you - do you recall which EditorTrees JUnit test this was?)
2. (20 points) In this problem, we consider completely full binary trees with N nodes and height H 
                     (so that N = 2^H+1 – 1 )
   (a) (5 points) Show that the sum of the heights of all of the nodes of such a tree can be expressed as   
   
   (b) (15 points) Prove by induction on H that the above sum of the heights of the nodes is N - H - 1.  You may base your proof on the summation from part (a) (so you don't need to refer to trees at all), or you may do our "standard" binary tree induction based on the subtrees (using the definition that a non-empty binary tree has a root plus left and right subtrees). We find the tree approach more straightforward, but you may use the summation if you prefer.