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Problem 1. True or False.

Circle T or F for each of the following statements to indicate whether

the statement is true or false, and briefly explain why. Your justification
is worth more points than your true-or-false designation.

(a) T F The solution to the recurrence T(n) = 2nT(n-1) is T(n) = Ɵ

(( √2)n2+n ).
(Assume T(n) = 1 for n smaller than some constant c)

Solution: True. Let T(0) = 1.

Then T(n) = 2n · 2 n−1 · 2 n−2 . . . 2 1 = 2(n+(n−1)+(n−2)+...+1) .
Because (√2)n2+n.
we therefore have T(n) = 2(n2 + n) /2=
Some students also correctly solved the problem by using the
substitution method.
Some students made the mistake of multiplying the exponents instead
of adding them. Also, it has to be noted that 2n2/2 ≠Ɵ (2n2).

(b) T F The solution to the recurrence T(n) = T(n/6) + T(7n/9) + O(n) is

O(n).
(Assume T(n) = 1 for n smaller than some constant c).
Solution: True. Using the substitution method:

T(n) ≤ cn/6 + 7cn/9 + an

≤ 17cn/18 + an
≤ cn − (cn/18 − an)

This holds if c/18 − a ≥ 0, so it holds for any constant c such that c ≥

18a. Full credit was also given for solutions that uses a recursion
tree, noting that the total work at level i is (17/18) in, which onverges
to O(n).

(c) T F In a simple, undirected, connected, weighted graph with at

least three vertices
and unique edge weights, the heaviest edge in the graph is in
no minimum
spanning tree.

Solution: False. If the heaviest edge in the graph is the only edge
connecting some vertex to the rest of the graph, then it must be in
every minimum spanning tree.

(d) T F The weighted task scheduling problem with weights in the

set {1, 2} can be
solved optimally by the same greedy algorithm used for the
unweighted case.
Solution: False. The algorithm will fail given the set of tasks (given
in the form ((si , fi), wi):

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 {((0, 1), 1),((0, 2), 2)}.

(e) T F Two polynomials p, q of degree at most n − 1 are given by their

coefficients,
and a number x is given. Then one can compute the multiplication
p(x)· q(x)
in time O(log n).

Solution: False. We need at least Θ(n) time to evaluate each polynomial on

x and to multiply the results. Some students argued incorrectly that it must
take O(n log n) using FFT, but FFT overkills because it computes all
coefficients, not just one.

(f) T F Suppose we are given an array A of n distinct elements, and we

want to find n/2
elements in the array whose median is also the median of A. Any
algorithm that
does this must take Ω(n log n) time.

Solution: False. It’s possible to do this in linear time using SELECT: first
find the median of A in Θ(n) time, and then partition A around its median.
Then we can take n/4 elements from either side to get a total of n/2
elements in A whose median is also the median of A.

(g) T F There is a density 0 < ρ < 1 such that the asymptotic running time
of the Floyd2
Warshall algorithm on graphs G = (V, E) where |E| = ρ |V | is better
than that of
Johnson’s algorithm.

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Solution: False. The asymptotic running time of Floyd-Warshall is
O(V 3 ), which is at best the same asymptotic running time of
Johnson’s (which runs in O(V E + V log V ) time), since E = O(V 2 )

(h) T F Consider the all pairs shortest paths problem where there are
also weights on the
vertices, and the weight of a path is the sum of the weights
on the edges and
vertices on the path. Then, the following algorithm finds the
weights of the
shortest paths between all pairs in the graph:

APSP-WITH-WEIGHTED-VERTICES(G, w):

1 for (u, v) ∈ E
2 Set w ′ (u, v) = (w(u) + w(v))/2 + w(u, v)
3 Run Johnson’s algorithm on G, w′ to compute the distances δ ′ (u,
v) for all u, v ∈ V .
4 for u, v ∈ V
5 Set duv = δ ′ (u, v) + ½ (w(u) + w(v))

Solution: True. Any shortest path from u to v in the original graph is

still a shortest path in the new graph. For some path {v0, v1, . . . ,
vk}, we have:

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Therefore, the order of all paths from v0 to vk remains
unchanged so Johnson’s algorithm in line 3. finds the correct
path, and the adjustment in line 5 finds the correct length
dv0vk .

Problem 2. Translation

You have been hired to manage the translation process for

some documentation. Unfortunately, different sections of the
documentation were written in different languages: n
languages in total. Your boss wants the entire documentation
to be available in all n languages.

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There are m different translators for hire. Some of those translators
are volunteers that do not get any money for their services. Each
translator knows exactly two different languages and can translate
back and forth between them. Each translator has a non-negative
hiring cost (some may work for free). Unfortunately, your budget is
too small to hire one translator for each pair of languages. Instead,
you must rely on chains of translators: an English-Spanish
translator and a Spanish-French translator, working together, can
translate between English and French. Your goal is to find a
minimum-cost set of translators that will let you translate between
every pair of languages.

We may formulate this problem as a connected undirected graph G

= (V, E) with non-negative (i.e., zero or positive) edge weights w.
The vertices V are the languages for which you wish to generate
translations. The edges E are the translators. The edge weight w(e)
for a translator e gives the cost for hiring the translator w(e). A
subset S ⊆ E of translators can be used to translate between a, b ∈
V if and only if the subgraph GS = (V, S) contains a path between a
and b. The set S ⊆ E is a translation network if and only if S can be
used to translate between all pairs a, b ∈ V .

(a) Prove that each minimum spanning tree of G is also a

minimum-cost translation network.

Solution: Let T be some minimum spanning tree of G. Because T

is a spanning tree, there is a path in T between any pair of vertices.
Hence, T is a translation network.
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For the sake of contradiction, suppose that T is not a minimum-cost
translation network. Then there must be some translation network S
with total cost strictly smaller than T. Because S connects every pair
of vertices, it must have some spanning tree T ∗ as a subgraph.
Because all edge weights are nonnegative, we have w(T ∗ ) ≤ w(S)
< w(T). Hence, T is not the minimum spanning tree. This
contradiction means that all spanning trees are also minimum-cost
translation networks.

(b) Give an example of a minimum-cost translation network that is

not a minimum spanning tree of G.

Solution: If the graph of translators contains a cycle of translators

all willing to work for $0, then it is possible to hire all of the
translators in the cycle without increasing the overall cost of the
translation network. The smallest example of this is the following:

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All three MSTs of the graph have total cost $0, so any translation
network of cost $0 has minimum cost. Hence, we can take all
translators in the cycle to get a minimumcost translation network
that is not an MST.

(c) Give an efficient algorithm that takes G as input, and outputs

a minimum-cost translation network of G. State the runtime of
your algorithm in terms of the number of languages n and the
number of potential translators m.

Solution: We saw in part (a) that every minimum spanning tree

is a minimum-cost translation network of G. Hence, to find a
minimum-cost translation network, it is sufficient to find a
minimum spanning tree of G. We may do so using Kruskal’s
algorithm, for a runtime of Θ(m log n), or using Prim’s
algorithm, for a runtime of Θ(m + n log n).

Your bosses have decided that the previous approach to

translation doesn’t work. When attempting to translate between
Spanish and Portuguese — two relatively similar languages — it
degrades the translation quality to translate from Spanish to
Tagalog to Mandarin to Portuguese. There are certain clusters of
languages that are more closely related than others. When
translating between two languages that lie within the same
cluster, such as Spanish and Portuguese, the translation is of high
quality when the sequence of languages used to translate
between them is completely contained within the cluster.
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More formally, the language set V can be divided into disjoint clusters
C1, . . . , Ck. Each cluster Ci contains languages that are fairly similar;
each language is contained in exactly one cluster. Your bosses have
decided that a translation between a, b ∈ Ci is high-quality if and only if
all of the languages used on the path from a to b are also in C i . The
translator set S is a high-quality translation network if and only if it is a
translation network, and for any language cluster Ci and any languages
a, b ∈ Ci , S can be used for a high-quality translation between a and b.

(d) Suppose that S is a minimum-cost high-quality translation network.

Let Si = S ∩ (Ci × Ci) be the part of the network S that lies within the
cluster Ci . Show that Si is a minimum-cost translation network for the
cluster Ci .

Solution: Let S ∗ i be a minimum-cost translation network for Ci .

Because S is a high-quality translation network, Si must contain a path
between every pair of nodes in Ci , so Si is a translation network for Ci .
For the sake of contradiction, assume that Si is not minimum-cost. Then
w(Si) > w(S ∗ i ).

Consider the translation network S ∗ = (S −Si)∪S ∗ i . Then w(S ) =

w(S)−w(Si) + w(S ∗ i ) < w(S). Because Si is a translation network of Ci ,
replacing Si with S ∗ i will not disconnect any pair of vertices in the
graph. Furthermore, any pair of vertices connected by a path in S that
lay inside a particular cluster will be connected by a path in S ∗ that lies
within the same cluster.
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Hence, S ∗ is a high-quality translation network with cost
strictly less than S. This contradicts the definition of S, so Si
must be a minimum-cost translation network.

(e) Give an efficient algorithm for computing a minimum-

cost high-quality translation network. Analyze the runtime
of your algorithm in terms of the number of languages n and
the number of translators m.

Solution: The idea behind this algorithm is to first compute

one MST for each individual cluster, and then to compute a
global MST using the remaining edges. More specifically,
we do the following:

1. For each edge (u, v), if there is some cluster Ci such that
u, v ∈ Ci , then add (u, v) to the set Ei . Otherwise, add (u, v)
to the set Eglobal.

2. For each cluster Ci , run Kruskal’s algorithm on the graph

(Ci , Ei) to get a minimumcost translation network Ti for the
cluster. Take the union of these minimum to get a forest T.

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3. Construct an empty graph Gglobal on nodes {1, . . . , k}. For
each edge (u, v) in Eglobal, where u ∈ Ci and v ∈ Cj , check
whether the edge (i, j) is in the graph Gglobal. If so, set w(i, j)
= min{w(i, j), w(u, v)}. Otherwise, add the edge (i, j) to the
graph G ∗ ∗ global. In either case, keep a mapping source(i,
j) = (u , v ) such that w(i, j) = w(u ∗ , v∗ ).

4. Run Kruskal’s algorithm on the graph Gglobal to get Tglobal.

5. For each edge (i, j) ∈ Tglobal add the edge source(i, j) to T.

We begin by examining the runtime of this algorithm. The

first step requires us to be able to efficiently discover the
cluster Ci that contains each vertex, which can be
precomputed in time Θ(m) and stored with the vertices for
efficient lookup. So this filtering step requires Θ(1) lookup
per edge, for a total of Θ(m) time.

The second step is more complex. We run Kruskal’s

algorithm on each individual cluster. So for the cluster Ci ,
the runtime is Θ(|Ei | lg |Ci !). The total runtime here is:

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Hence, the total runtime for this step is Θ(m lg n).

The third step also requires care. We can store the graph to allow
us to efficiently lookup w(·, ·) and to tell whether an edge (i, j)
has been added to the graph. We can also store source(·, ·) to
allow for Θ(1) lookups. So the runtime here is bounded by Θ(m).
The fourth step is Kruskal’s again, only once, on a graph with ≤ n
vertices and ≤ m edges, so the total runtime is Θ(m lg n). The
final step involves a lookup for each edge (i, j) ∈ T, for a total
runtime of Θ(k) ≤ Θ(n). Hence, the runtime is dominated by the
two steps involving Kruskal. So the total worst-case runtime is
Θ(m lg n).

Next we consider the correctness of this algorithm. Suppose that

the result of this process is not the minimum-cost high-quality
translator network. Then there must be a high-quality translator
network S that has strictly smaller cost. Because S is a minimum-
cost high-quality translator network, we know that the portion of
S contained in the cluster Ci is a minimum-cost translator network
for Ci , which has the same cost as the minimum spanning tree for
that cluster computed in step 2 of the algorithm. So the total
weight of all inter-cluster edges in S must be strictly less than the
total weight of all inter-cluster edges in T. But the set of all inter-
cluster edges in T formed a minimum spanning tree on the cluster,
so any strictly smaller set of edges cannot span the set of all
clusters. So S cannot be a translation network. This contradicts
our assumption, and so T must be a minimum-cost high-quality
translation network.
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Problem 3. All Pairs Shortest Red/Blue Paths.
You are given a directed graph G = (V, E) with edge
weights w : E → R. In addition, each edge of the graph is
either red or blue. The shortest red/blue path from vertex i
∈ V to vertex j ∈ V is defined as the shortest path from i
to j among those paths that go through exactly one red
edge (if there are no such paths, the length of the shortest
red/blue path is ∞).

We can represent this graph with two n × n matrices of

edge weights, Wr and Wb, where Wr contains the weights
of all red edges, and Wb contains the weights of all blue
edges.

(a) Given the Floyd-Warshall algorithm below, how would

you modify the algorithm to obtain the lengths of the
shortest paths that only go through blue edges?

FLOYD-WARSHALL(W):

1 n = W.rows
2 D(0) = W
3 for k = 1 to n (k)
4 let D(k) = (d(k)ij ) be a new n × n matrix
5 for i = 1 to n
6 for j = 1 to n
7
8 return D(n)

Solution: In order to find shortest paths going through only blue

edges, it suffices to ignore the red edges and run Floyd-Warshall
on only the blue edges of the graph. We make the following
changes:

• Replace each occurrence of W with Wb in lines 1 and 2.

• Replace the matrices D(k) with blue versions D(k)b in lines 2, 4,
and 8.
• Replace the matrix elements d(k)ij with blue versions d(k)b,ij in
lines 4 and 7.

While the second and third changes above are unnecessary for
this part, they lay the groundwork for future parts below.

(b) How would you modify your algorithm from part (a) to keep
track not only of shortest paths with only blue edges, but also
those with exactly one red edge, and to output the lengths of the
shortest red/blue paths for all pairs of vertices in this graph?

Solution: Add a new set of matrices D(k)r that give lengths of

shortest paths with exactly one red edge and intermediate
vertices up to k. The resulting pseudocode is as follows:
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 RED-BLUE-FLOYD-WARSHALL(Wr, Wb):

1 n = Wr.rows
2 D(0) b = Wb
3 D(0) r = Wr
4 for k = 1 to n
5
be new n × n matrices

6 for i = 1 to n
7 for j = 1 to n
8 d(k)bij = min (d(k-1)b,ij , d(k-1)b,ik + d(k-1) b,kj

9 d(k)r,ij = min (d(k-1)r,ij d(k-1)r,ik + d(k-1)b,kj , d(k-1)b,ik + d(k-1)r,kj

10 return D(n)r
(c) Prove the correctness of your algorithm using a loop
invariant.

Solution: The procedure for keeping track of paths that go

through only blue edges is exactly equivalent to running
Floyd-Warshall on the subgraph that con- tains only the
blue edges of G, which is sufficient to show the
correctness of D(k)b for all k.
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Loop invariant: at the end of every iteration of the for loop from k
= 1 to n, we have both the length of the shortest path for every
pair (i, j) going through only blue edges and the length of the
shortest path for every pair (i, j) going through exactly one red
edge, in each using intermediate vertices only up to k.

Initialization: At initialization k = 0, there are no intermediate

vertices. The only blue paths are blue edges, and the only paths
with exactly one red edge (red/blue paths) are red edges, by
definition.

Maintenance: Each iteration gets the shortest blue-edges-only

path going from i to j using intermediate vertices up through k
accurately, due to the correctness of the Floyd-Warshall
algorithm.

For the paths including exactly one red edge, for a given pair (i,
j), there are two cases: either the shortest red/blue path from i to j
using intermediate vertices through k does not go through k, or it
does. If it does not go through k, then the length of this path is
equal to d(k-1)r,ij. If it does go through k, then the red edge on this
path is either between i and k or between k and j. Because of the
optimal substructure of shortest paths, we can therefore break this
case down into two subcases: the shortest path length is equal to
min
(d(k-1)r,ik + d(k-1)b,kj, d(k-1)b.ik+ d(k-1)r,kj).

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Line 9 in the algorithm above finds the minimum path length of
these three different possibilities, so this iteration must find the
shortest path length from i to j going through exactly one red edge,
using only intermediate vertices through k.

Termination: After n passes through the loop, all paths with

intermediate vertices up to n have been included, and as there are
only n vertices, shortest paths using all vertices as intermediates will
be discovered.

Problem 4. Telephone Psetting

Upon realizing that it was 8:30 PM on Wednesday and he had not yet
started his 6.046 pset, Ben Bitdiddle found n − 1 other students (for a
total of n students) in the same situation, and they decided to do the
pset, which coincidentally had n problems in total, together.

Their brilliant plan for finishing the pset in time was to sit in a circle
and assign one problem to each student, so that for i = 0, 1, . . . , n−1,
student i did problem number i, and wrote up a solution for problem i
meriting p(i) points. Then, they each copied the solutions to all the
other problems from the student next to them, so that student i was
copying from student i − 1 (and student 0 was copying from student
n − 1).

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 Unfortunately, they were in such a hurry that the copying chain
degraded the quality of the solutions: by the time student i’s solution
to problem i reached student j, where d = j − i (mod n), d ∈ {0, 1, . .
. , n − 1}, the solution was only worth 1/d+1 P (i) points.

(a) Write a formula that describes the total pset score S(x) for
student x, where the total pset score is the sum of the scores that
student x got on each of the n problems.

Solution:

Alternatively, it is also correct to give the equivalent sum:

(b) Describe a simple O(n 2 ) algorithm to calculate the pset scores

of all the students.

Solution: Use the formula given in part (a) to calculate each

student’s score. Because calculating the score requires summing n
numbers, it takes O(n) time to calculate a Z single score, and
therefore O(n 2 ) time to calculate all the scores.

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(c) Describe a O(n log n) algorithm to calculate the pset
scores of all the students.

Solution: The formula in the solution to part (a) describes a

convolution: letting g(y) = 1/y+1, the formula in part (a) can
be written as where

1. Apply FFT on p and g to get pˆ and gˆ (time Θ(n log n)).

2. Compute the transformed convolution Sˆ = pˆ · gˆ (time
Θ(n)).
3. Apply the inverse FFT to get back the convolution S (time Θ(n
log n)).
Alternatively, define two polynomials:

Then student j’s

pset score is
equal to the coefficient of x n+j in the product of the polynomials P1
and P2. Because
we are multiplying two polynomials of degree at most 2n − 1, we
can apply the polynomial multiplication method seen in class, which
is outlined above: apply the FFT to get the evaluations of P1 and P2
on the roots of unity of order 2n, pointwise multiply, and finally
apply the inverse FFT to get the coefficients of the product.

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