You are given n sorted sequences each one containing n keys. You may assume n is a power of two. We want to merge them into one sorted sequence containing all the keys. Assume all of the keys are distince. What is an upper bound on the number of comparisons performed. Provide a multiplicative constant for the most important number and as much as possible for the remaining terms. (Only the result counts.)

2. fluorine and chlorine molecules are blamed fora trapping the sun's energyob forming acid rainoc producing smogod destroying ozone molecules

An environmental protection agency study of 12 automobiles revealed a correlation of 0.47 between engine size and emissions. at 0.01 significance level, can we conclude that there is a positive association between the variables? what is the p value? interpret.

The idea that, for each pair of devices v and w, there’s a strict dichotomy between being “in range” or “out of range” is a simplified abstraction. more accurately, there’s a power decay function f (·) that specifies, for a pair of devices at distance δ, the signal strength f(δ) that they’ll be able to achieve on their wireless connection. (we’ll assume that f (δ) decreases with increasing δ.) we might want to build this into our notion of back-up sets as follows: among the k devices in the back-up set of v, there should be at least one that can be reached with very high signal strength, at least one other that can be reached with moderately high signal strength, and so forth. more concretely, we have values p1 ≥ p2 ≥ . . ≥ pk, so that if the back-up set for v consists of devices at distances d1≤d2≤≤dk,thenweshouldhavef(dj)≥pj foreachj. give an algorithm that determines whether it is possible to choose a back-up set for each device subject to this more detailed condition, still requiring that no device should appear in the back-up set of more than b other devices. again, the algorithm should output the back-up sets themselves, provided they can be found.\