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GATE | Gate IT 2008 | Question 74

A binary tree with n > 1 nodes has n1, n2 and n3 nodes of degree one, two and three respectively. The degree of a node is defined as the number of its neighbors.
Starting with the above tree, while there remains a node v of degree two in the tree, add an edge between the two neighbors of v and then remove v from the tree. How many edges will remain at the end of the process?

(A)

2 * n1 - 3

(B)

n2 + 2 * n1 - 2

(C)

n3 - n2

(D)

n2 + n1 - 2

Answer

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