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Question 1. Continuous Subarray Sum LeetCode Solution Problem Statement Continuous Subarray Sum LeetCode Solution – Given an integer array nums and an integer k, return true if nums has a continuous subarray of the size of at least two whose elements sum up to a multiple of k, or false otherwise. An integer x is a multiple of k if there exists an integer n such that x = n * k. 0 is always a ...
Question 2. Insert Delete GetRandom O(1) Leetcode Solution Problem Statement The Insert Delete GetRandom O(1) LeetCode Solution – “Insert Delete GetRandom O(1)” asks you to implement these four functions in O(1) time complexity. insert(val): Insert the val into the randomized set and return true if the element is initially absent in the set. It returns false when the ...
Question 3. Summary Ranges Leetcode Solution Problem Statement In Summary Ranges problem a sorted unique integer array is given. We have to make smallest sorted list of ranges that cover all numbers in array exactly once i.e. each element of array is covered by exactly one of the ranges. Each range [a,b] in the list should ...
Question 4. Merge Sorted Arrays Leetcode Solution In the problem “Merge Sorted Arrays”, we are given two arrays sorted in non-descending order. The first array is not fully filled and has enough space to accommodate all elements of the second array as well. We have to merge the two arrays, such that the first array contains elements ...
Question 5. Search in Rotated Sorted Array Leetcode Solution Consider a sorted array but one index was picked and the array was rotated at that point. Now, once the array has been rotated you are required to find a particular target element and return its index. In case, the element is not present, return -1. The problem is generally ...
Question 6. Count all subsequences having product less than K The problem “Count all subsequences having product less than K” states that you are given an array of integers. Now find the number of subsequences that have a product less than a given input K. Example a[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} k = 8 Number of subsequences less ...
Question 7. Count of index pairs with equal elements in an array Suppose, we have given an integer array. The problem “Count of index pairs with equal elements in an array” asks to find out the no of pair of indices (i,j) in such a way that arr[i]=arr[j] and i is not equal to j. Example arr[] = {2,3,1,2,3,1,4} 3 Explanation Pairs ...
Question 8. Longest subarray not having more than K distinct elements The problem “Longest subarray not having more than K distinct elements” states that suppose you have an array of integers, the problem statement asks to find out the longest sub-array that having not greater than k different elements. Example arr[] = {4, 3, 5, 2, 1, 2, 0, 4, 5} ...
Question 9. Minimum operation to make all elements equal in array The problem “Minimum operation to make all elements equal in array” states that you are given an array with some integers in it. You have to find out the minimum operations that can be done to make an array equal. Example [ 1,3,2,4,1] 3 Explanation Either 3 subtractions can be ...
Question 10. Generate all possible sorted arrays from alternate elements of two given sorted arrays The problem “Generate all possible sorted arrays from alternate elements of two given sorted arrays” states that suppose you have two sorted arrays. The problem statement asks to find out all the possible sorted arrays, such that number should be arranged alternatively from the two given different arrays. Example ArrA[] ...
Question 11. Find whether a subarray is in form of a mountain or not Problem Statement The problem “Find whether a subarray is in form of a mountain or not” states that you are given an integer array and a range. The problem statement asks to find out whether the sub-array formed between the given range is in form of a mountain form or ...
Question 12. Mean of range in array Problem Statement The problem “Mean of range in array” states that you are given an integer array and q number of queries. Each query contains the left and right as a range. The problem statement asks to find out the floor mean value of all the integers that come in ...
Question 13. Sum of minimum and maximum elements of all subarrays of size k Problem Statement The problem “Sum of minimum and maximum elements of all subarrays of size k” states that you are given an array containing positive and negative integers, find the sum of minimum and maximum elements of all the sub-arrays of size k. Examples arr[] = {5, 9, 8, 3, ...
Question 14. Minimum number of distinct elements after removing m items Problem Statement The problem “Minimum number of distinct elements after removing m items” states that you have an array and an integer m. Each element of the array indicates an item id’s. The problem statement asks to remove m elements in such a way that there should be a minimum ...
Question 15. Count subarrays having total distinct elements same as original array Problem Statement “Count subarrays having total distinct elements same as original array” states that you are given an integer array. The problem statement asks to find out the total number of sub-arrays that contain all distinct elements as present in an original array. Example arr[] = {2, 1, 3, 2, ...
Question 16. Count pairs from two sorted arrays whose sum is equal to a given value x Problem Statement “Count pairs from two sorted arrays whose sum is equal to a given value x” problem states that you are given two sorted arrays of integers and an integer value called sum. The problem statement asks to find out the total number of pair which sums up to ...
Question 17. Minimum number of subsets with distinct elements Problem Statement Suppose you have an array of integers of size n. The problem statement asks to find out the minimum number of subsets with distinct elements, that is subsets that can be formed which contain all the different/distinct elements from the array. Example arr[] = {2,4,6,2,1,4,2} 3 Explanation: {1, ...
Question 18. Minimize the maximum difference between the heights Problem Statement You are given some heights of n towers and a number k. We can either increase the height of the tower by k or decrease the height by k, but just for once. The problem statement asks to minimize the maximum difference between the heights. That is to ...
Question 19. Longest Span with same Sum in two Binary arrays Problem Statement You are given two arrays of which each contains binary number. The problem statement asks to find longest span with same sum in two binary arrays, that is to find out the maximum length common sub-array from (i, j) in such a way that j is greater than ...
Question 20. Insert Delete GetRandom In Insert Delete GetRandom problem we need to design a data structure that supports all following operations in average O(1) time. insert(val): Inserts an item val to the set if not already present. remove(val): Removes an item val from the set if present. getRandom: Returns a random element from the current set ...
Question 21. Merge Overlapping Intervals In merge overlapping intervals problem we have given a collection of intervals, merge and return all overlapping intervals. Example Input : [[2, 3], [3, 4], [5, 7]] Output: [[2, 4], [5, 7]] Explanation: We can merge [2, 3] and [3, 4] together to form [2, 4] Approach for finding Merge ...
Question 22. Merging Intervals In merging intervals problem we have given a set of intervals of the form [l, r], merge the overlapping intervals. Examples Input {[1, 3], [2, 6], [8, 10], [15, 18]} Output {[1, 6], [8, 10], [15, 18]} Input {[1, 4], [1, 5]} Output {[1, 5]} Naive Approach for merging intervals ...
Question 23. Longest Span with same Sum in two Binary Arrays II Problem Statement In the “Longest Span with same Sum in two Binary Arrays II” problem, we have given two binary arrays “a” and “b” with the same size. Write a program to print the longest span with the same sum in two arrays. This can be clearly explained in the ...
Question 24. Merge Overlapping Intervals II Problem Statement In the “Merge Overlapping Intervals II” problem we have given a set of intervals. Write a program that will merge the overlapping intervals into one and print all the non-overlapping intervals. Input Format The first line containing an integer n. Second-line containing n pairs where each pair is ...
Question 25. Subarray with Given Sum Problem Statement In the subarray with the given sum problem, we have given an array containing n positive elements. We have to find the subarray in which the sum of all the elements of the subarray equal to a given_sum. Subarray is obtained from the original array by deleting some ...
Question 26. Find the Lost Element From a Duplicated Array Problem Statement Given two arrays A and B, one array is a duplicate of the other except one element. The one element is missing from either A or B. we need to find the lost element from a duplicated array. Example 5 1 6 4 8 9 6 4 8 ...
Question 27. Merge Two Sorted Arrays Problem Statement In merge two sorted arrays problem, we have given two input sorted arrays, we need to merge these two arrays such that the initial numbers after complete sorting should be in the first array and remaining in the second array. Example Input A[] = {1, 3, 5, 7, ...
Question 28. Merging Two Sorted Arrays Problem Statement In merging two sorted arrays problem we have given two sorted arrays, one array with size m+n and the other array with size n. We will merge the n sized array into m+n sized array and print the m+n sized merged array. Example Input 6 3 M[] = ...
Question 29. Move All the Zeros to the End of the Given Array Problem Statement In the given array move all the zeros which are present in the array to the end of the array. Here there is always a way exist to insert all the number of zeroes to the end of the array. Example Input 9 9 17 0 14 0 ...
Question 30. Count Number of Occurrences in a Sorted Array Problem Statement In the “Count Number of Occurrences in a Sorted Array” problem, we have given a sorted array. Count the number of occurrences or frequency in a sorted array of X where X is an integer. Example Input 13 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 ...
Question 31. Find Smallest Missing Number in a Sorted Array Problem Statement In the “Find Smallest Missing Number in a Sorted Array” problem we have given an integer array. Find the smallest missing number in N sized sorted array having unique elements in the range of 0 to M-1, where M>N. Example Input [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, ...
Question 32. A Product Array Puzzle Problem Statement In a product array puzzle problem we need to construct an array where the ith element will be the product of all the elements in the given array except element at the ith position. Example Input 5 10 3 5 6 2 Output 180 600 360 300 900 ...
Question 33. Find the Missing Number Problem Statement In finding the missing number from an array of 1 to N numbers we have given an array that contains N-1 numbers. One number is missing from an array of numbers from 1 to N. We have to find the missing number. Input Format First-line containing an integer ...
Yandex String Questions
Question 34. Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters Leetcode Solution Problem Statement The Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters LeetCode Solution – states that given the string s. We need to find the longest substring without repeating characters. Example: Input: s = "abcabcbb" Output: 3 Explanation: The longest substring with no characters being repeated is of length 3. The string is: “abc”. Input: s = "bbbbb" ...
Question 35. Valid Parentheses Leetcode Solution Problem Statement The Valid Parentheses LeetCode Solution – “Valid Parentheses” states that you’re given a string containing just the characters '(', ')', '{', '}', '[' and ']'. We need to determine whether the input string is a valid string or not. A string is said to be a valid string if open brackets must be closed ...
Question 36. Is Subsequence Leetcode Solution Problem Statement In this problem, we are given two different strings. The goal is to find out whether the first string is a subsequence of the second. Examples first string = "abc" second string = "mnagbcd" true first string = "burger" second string = "dominos" false Approach(Recursive) This is easy ...
Question 37. Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters LeetCode Solution Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters LeetCode Solution – Given a string, we have to find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters. Let’s look into a few examples: Example pwwkew 3 Explanation: Answer is “wke” with length 3 aav 2 Explanation: Answer is “av” with length 2 Approach-1 ...
Question 38. String Compression In the String Compression problem, we have given an array a[ ] of type char. Compress it as the character and count of a particular character (if the count of character is 1 then the only character is stored in a compressed array). The length of the compressed array should ...
Question 39. Even Substring Count Problem Statement In the “Even Substring Count” problem we have given an input string which is formed by digits. Write a program or code to find the count of substrings which when converting into integer form even. Input Format The first and only one line containing a string “s”. Output ...
Question 40. Check if a Linked list of Strings form a Palindrome Problem Statement In the “Check if a Linked list of Strings form a Palindrome” problem we have given a linked list handling string data. Write a program to check whether the data forms a palindrom or not. Example ba->c->d->ca->b 1 Explanation: In the above example we can see that the ...
Yandex Tree Questions
Question 41. Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree Leetcode Solution Problem Statement The Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree LeetCode Solution – “Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree” states that given the root of the binary tree and two nodes of the tree. We need to find the lowest common ancestor of these two nodes. The Lowest Common ...
Question 42. Minimum number of distinct elements after removing m items Problem Statement The problem “Minimum number of distinct elements after removing m items” states that you have an array and an integer m. Each element of the array indicates an item id’s. The problem statement asks to remove m elements in such a way that there should be a minimum ...
Question 43. K’th Largest element in BST using constant extra space Problem Statement “K’th Largest element in BST using constant extra space” states that you are given a binary search tree and you need to find the kth largest element in it. So if we arrange the elements of the binary search tree in descending order then we need to return ...
Yandex Stack Questions
Question 44. Valid Parentheses Leetcode Solution Problem Statement The Valid Parentheses LeetCode Solution – “Valid Parentheses” states that you’re given a string containing just the characters '(', ')', '{', '}', '[' and ']'. We need to determine whether the input string is a valid string or not. A string is said to be a valid string if open brackets must be closed ...
Yandex Queue Questions
Question 45. Sum of minimum and maximum elements of all subarrays of size k Problem Statement The problem “Sum of minimum and maximum elements of all subarrays of size k” states that you are given an array containing positive and negative integers, find the sum of minimum and maximum elements of all the sub-arrays of size k. Examples arr[] = {5, 9, 8, 3, ...
Yandex Matrix Questions
Question 46. Find maximum length Snake sequence The problem “Find maximum length Snake sequence” states that we are provided with a grid containing integers. The task is to find a snake sequence with the maximum length. A sequence having adjacent numbers in the grid with an absolute difference of 1, is known as a Snake sequence. Adjacent ...
Yandex Other Questions
Question 47. Implement Rand10() Using Rand7() Leetcode Solution Problem Statement: Implement Rand10() Using Rand7() Leetcode Solution – Given the API rand7() that generates a uniform random integer in the range [1, 7], write a function rand10() that produces a uniform random integer in the range [1, 10]. You can only call the API rand7(), and you shouldn’t call any other ...
Question 48. Find First and Last Position of Element in Sorted Array LeetCode Solution Problem Statement: Find First and Last Position of Element in Sorted Array LeetCode Solution says that – given an array of integers nums sorted in non-decreasing order, find the starting and ending position of a given target value. If target is not found in the array, return [-1, -1]. You must write an algorithm with O(log n) runtime complexity. ...
Question 49. Binary Search LeetCode Solution Problem Statement Binary Search LeetCode Solution says that – Given an array of integers nums which is sorted in ascending order, and an integer target, write a function to search target in nums. If target exists, then return its index. Otherwise, return -1. You must write an algorithm with O(log n) runtime complexity. Example 1: Input: nums = [-1,0,3,5,9,12], target ...
Question 50. Valid Anagram Leetcode Solution Problem Statement Valid Anagram Leetcode Solution – Given two strings s and t, return true if t is an anagram of s, and false otherwise. An Anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once. Example 1: Input: s = "anagram", t = "nagaram" Output: ...
Question 51. Range Sum of BST LeetCode Solution Range Sum of BST LeetCode Solution says that – Given the root the node of a binary search tree and two integers low and high, return the sum of values of all nodes with a value in the inclusive range [low, high]. Example 1: Input: root = [10,5,15,3,7,null,18], low = 7, high = 15 Output: 32 Explanation: ...
Question 52. LRU Cache Leetcode Solution Problem Statement The LRU Cache LeetCode Solution – “LRU Cache” asks you to design a data structure that follows Least Recently Used (LRU) Cache We need to implement LRUCache class that has the following functions: LRUCache(int capacity): Initializes the LRU cache with positive size capacity. int get(int key): Return the value ...
Question 53. Merge k Sorted Lists Leetcode Solution Problem Statement The Merge k Sorted Lists LeetCode Solution – “Merge k Sorted Lists” states that given the array of k linked lists, where each linked list has its values sorted in ascending order. We need to merge all the k-linked lists into one single linked list and return the ...
Question 54. Partition Labels LeetCode Solution Problem Statement Partition Labels LeetCode Solution – You are given a string s. We want to partition the string into as many parts as possible so that each letter appears in at most one part. Note that the partition is done so that after concatenating all the parts in order, the ...
Question 55. Reverse Words in a String III LeetCode Solution Problem Statement Reverse Words in a String III LeetCode Solution – We are given a string and are asked to reverse the order of characters in each word within a sentence while still preserving whitespace and initial word order. Examples & Explanations Example 1: Input: s = "Let's take LeetCode ...
Question 56. First Unique Character in a String LeetCode Solution Problem Statement First Unique Character in a String LeetCode Solution – Given a string s, find the first non-repeating character in it and return its index. If it does not exist, return -1. Example Test Case 1: Input: s = “leetcode” Output: 0 Test Case 2: Input: s = “aabb” Output: -1 Explanation ...
Question 57. Evaluate Reverse Polish Notation LeetCode Solution Problem Statement Evaluate Reverse Polish Notation LeetCode Solution – Evaluate the value of an arithmetic expression in Reverse Polish Notation. Valid operators are +, -, *, and /. Each operand may be an integer or another expression. Note that the division between two integers should truncate toward zero. It is guaranteed that the given ...
Question 58. Maximize Distance to Closest Person LeetCode Solution Problem Statement Maximize Distance to Closest Person LeetCode Solution – You are given an array representing a row of seats where seats[i] = 1 represents a person sitting in the ith seat, and seats[i] = 0 represents that the ith seat is empty (0-indexed). There is at least one empty seat, and at least one person sitting. Alex wants to ...
Question 59. Permutation in String Leetcode Solution Problem Statement : Permutation in String Leetcode Solution – Given two strings s1 and s2, return true if s2 contains a permutation of s1, or false otherwise. In other words, return true if one of s1‘s permutations is the substring of s2. Example : Example 1 Input: s1 = "ab", s2 = "eidbaooo" Output: true Explanation: s2 contains one permutation of s1 ("ba"). ...
Question 60. Binary Tree Maximum Path Sum LeetCode Solution Problem Statement Binary Tree Maximum Path Sum LeetCode Solution – A path in a binary tree is a sequence of nodes where each pair of adjacent nodes in the sequence has an edge connecting them. A node can only appear in the sequence at most once. Note that the path does not need ...
Question 61. Product of Array Except Self LeetCode Solution Problem Statement Product of Array Except Self LeetCode Solution – Given an integer array nums, return an array answer such that answer[i] is equal to the product of all the elements of nums except nums[i]. The product of any prefix or suffix of nums is guaranteed to fit in a 32-bit integer. You must write an algorithm that runs in O(n) time and without using the division ...
Question 62. One Edit Distance LeetCode Solution Problem Statement One Edit Distance LeetCode Solution – Given two strings s and t, return true if they are both one edit distance apart, otherwise return false. A string s is said to be one distance apart from a string t if you can: Insert exactly one character into s to get t. Delete exactly one character from s to get t. Replace exactly one character of s with a different character to get t. Input: ...
Question 63. Consecutive Characters LeetCode Solution Problem Statement Consecutive Characters LeetCode Solution – The power of the string is the maximum length of a non-empty substring that contains only one unique character. Given a string s, return the power of s. Input: s = "leetcode" Output: 2 Explanation: The substring "ee" is of length 2 with the character 'e' only. Explanation ...
Question 64. Longest Subarray of 1’s After Deleting One Element LeetCode Solution Problem Statement Longest Subarray of 1’s After Deleting One Element LeetCode Solution – Given binary array nums, you should delete one element from it. Return the size of the longest non-empty subarray containing only 1‘s in the resulting array. Return 0 if there is no such subarray. Example: Test Case 1: Input: nums ...
Question 65. Subarray Sum Equals K LeetCode Solution Problem Statement The Subarray Sum Equals K LeetCode Solution – “Subarray Sum Equals K” states that you are given an array of integers “nums” and an integer ‘k’, return the total number of continuous subarrays whose sum equals to ‘k’. Example: nums = [1, 2, 3], k=3 2 Explanation: There ...
Question 66. Number of Islands LeetCode Solution Problem Statement The number of Islands LeetCode Solution – “Number of Islands” states that you are given an m x n 2D binary grid which represents a map of ‘1’s (land) and ‘0’s (water), you have to return the number of islands. An island is surrounded by water and is ...
Question 67. Palindrome Linked List Leetcode Solution In the problem “Palindrome Linked List”, we have to check whether a given singly integer linked list is a palindrome or not. Example List = {1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 2 -> 1} true Explanation #1: The list is palindrome as all elements from the start and back are ...
Question 68. Check if any two intervals overlap among a given set of intervals Problem Statement The problem “Check if any two intervals overlap among a given set of intervals” states that you are given some set of intervals. Each interval consists of two values, one is starting time and the other is ending time. The problem statement asks to check if any of ...