1151 LCA in a Binary Tree (30 分)

The lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two nodes U and V in a tree is the deepest node that has both U and V as descendants.

Given any two nodes in a binary tree, you are supposed to find their LCA.

1148 Werewolf - Simple Version (20 分)

Werewolf（狼人杀） is a game in which the players are partitioned into two parties: the werewolves and the human beings. Suppose that in a game,

• player #1 said: “Player #2 is a werewolf.”;
• player #2 said: “Player #3 is a human.”;
• player #3 said: “Player #4 is a werewolf.”;
• player #4 said: “Player #5 is a human.”; and
• player #5 said: “Player #4 is a human.”.

Given that there were 2 werewolves among them, at least one but not all the werewolves were lying, and there were exactly 2 liars. Can you point out the werewolves?

Now you are asked to solve a harder version of this problem: given that there were N players, with 2 werewolves among them, at least one but not all the werewolves were lying, and there were exactly 2 liars. You are supposed to point out the werewolves.

1146 Topological Order (25 分)

This is a problem given in the Graduate Entrance Exam in 2018: Which of the following is NOT a topological order obtained from the given directed graph? Now you are supposed to write a program to test each of the options.

1145 Hashing - Average Search Time (25 分)

The task of this problem is simple: insert a sequence of distinct positive integers into a hash table first. Then try to find another sequence of integer keys from the table and output the average search time (the number of comparisons made to find whether or not the key is in the table). The hash function is defined to be H(key)=key%TSize where TSize is the maximum size of the hash table. Quadratic probing (with positive increments only) is used to solve the collisions.

Note that the table size is better to be prime. If the maximum size given by the user is not prime, you must re-define the table size to be the smallest prime number which is larger than the size given by the user.

1143 Lowest Common Ancestor (30 分)

The lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two nodes U and V in a tree is the deepest node that has both U and V as descendants.

A binary search tree (BST) is recursively defined as a binary tree which has the following properties:

• The left subtree of a node contains only nodes with keys less than the node’s key.
• The right subtree of a node contains only nodes with keys greater than or equal to the node’s key.
• Both the left and right subtrees must also be binary search trees.

Given any two nodes in a BST, you are supposed to find their LCA.

1139 First Contact (30 分)

Unlike in nowadays, the way that boys and girls expressing their feelings of love was quite subtle in the early years. When a boy A had a crush on a girl B, he would usually not contact her directly in the first place. Instead, he might ask another boy C, one of his close friends, to ask another girl D, who was a friend of both B and C, to send a message to B — quite a long shot, isn’t it? Girls would do analogously.

Here given a network of friendship relations, you are supposed to help a boy or a girl to list all their friends who can possibly help them making the first contact.

1135 Is It A Red-Black Tree (30 分)

There is a kind of balanced binary search tree named red-black tree in the data structure. It has the following 5 properties:

• (1) Every node is either red or black.
• (2) The root is black.
• (3) Every leaf (NULL) is black.
• (4) If a node is red, then both its children are black.
• (5) For each node, all simple paths from the node to descendant leaves contain the same number of black nodes.

For example, the tree in Figure 1 is a red-black tree, while the ones in Figure 2 and 3 are not.

Figure 1	Figure 2	Figure 3

For each given binary search tree, you are supposed to tell if it is a legal red-black tree.

1134 Vertex Cover (25 分)

A vertex cover of a graph is a set of vertices such that each edge of the graph is incident to at least one vertex of the set. Now given a graph with several vertex sets, you are supposed to tell if each of them is a vertex cover or not.

1131 Subway Map (30 分)

In the big cities, the subway systems always look so complex to the visitors. To give you some sense, the following figure shows the map of Beijing subway. Now you are supposed to help people with your computer skills! Given the starting position of your user, your task is to find the quickest way to his/her destination.

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1129 Recommendation System (25 分)

Recommendation system predicts the preference that a user would give to an item. Now you are asked to program a very simple recommendation system that rates the user’s preference by the number of times that an item has been accessed by this user.