SDE - 1

There are ‘N’ numbers of balls in a room that are placed in a row. You are given an array ‘location’ where location[ i ] denotes the location of the ‘i-th’ ball.

You have to move all the balls at the same location, and it is given that you can move a ball from position [ i ] to

1. position[i] + 2 with cost = 0.

2. position[i] + 1 with cost = 1.

Your task is to find the minimum cost required to move all the balls at the same location.

For Example :

If we have three balls placed at [ 1, 3, 4 ]

At first, move the ball from position ‘1’ to position ‘3’ with cost = 0.
Then move the ball from position ‘4’ to position ‘3’ with cost =1.
As the minimum cost = 1, so you need to print 1.

You are given a Singly Linked List of integers. Return true if it has a cycle, else return false.

A cycle occurs when a node's next points back to a previous node in the list.

Example:

In the given linked list, there is a cycle, hence we return true.

You are given an array containing 'N' points in the plane. The task is to find out the distance of the closest points.

Note :

Where distance between two points (x1, y1) and (x2, y2) is calculated as [(x1 - x2) ^ 2] + [(y1 - y2) ^ 2].

You are given an array/list 'prices' where the elements of the array represent the prices of the stock as they were yesterday and indices of the array represent minutes. Your task is to find and return the maximum profit you can make by buying and selling the stock. You can buy and sell the stock only once.

Note:

You can’t sell without buying first.

For Example:

For the given array [ 2, 100, 150, 120],
The maximum profit can be achieved by buying the stock at minute 0 when its price is Rs. 2 and selling it at minute 2 when its price is Rs. 150.
So, the output will be 148.

You are given an array 'ARR' of N integers. Each integer represents the height of a balloon. So, there are N balloons lined up.

Your aim is to destroy all these balloons. Now, a balloon can only be destroyed if the player shoots its head. So, to do the needful, he/ she shoots an arrow from the left to the right side of the platform, from an arbitrary height he/she chooses. The arrow moves from left to right, at a chosen height ARR[i] until it finds a balloon. The moment when an arrow touches a balloon, the balloon gets destroyed and disappears and the arrow continues its way from left to right at a height decreased by 1. Therefore, if the arrow was moving at height ARR[i], after destroying the balloon it travels at height ARR[i]-1. The player wins this game if he destroys all the balloons in minimum arrows.

You have to return the minimum arrows required to complete the task.

You are given a binary tree consisting of 'n' nodes.

Convert the given binary tree into a linked list where the linked list nodes follow the same order as the pre-order traversal of the given binary tree.

Use the right pointer of the binary tree as the “next” pointer for the linked list and set the left pointer to NULL.

Use these nodes only. Do not create extra nodes.

Example :

Input: Let the binary be as shown in the figure:

Output: Linked List: 15 -> 40 -> 62 -> 10 -> 20 -> NULL

Explanation: As shown in the figure, the right child of every node points to the next node, while the left node points to null.

Also, the nodes are in the same order as the pre-order traversal of the binary tree.