GATE | GATE-CS-2000 | Question 38

Suppose you are given an array s[1..n] and a procedure reverse (s, i, j) which reverses the order of elements in a between positions i and j (both inclusive). What does the following sequence do, where 1 <= k <= n:

reverse(s, 1, k) ;
reverse(s, k + 1, n);
reverse(s, l, n); 

(A) Rotates s left by k positions
(B) Leaves s unchanged

(C) Reverses all elements of s
(D) None of the above


Answer: (A)

Explanation: Effect of the above 3 reversals for any k is equivalent to left rotation of the array of size n by k. Please see this post for details.
If we rotate an array n times for k = 1 to n, we get the same array back.

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