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Question:  An N-ary tree has N sub-nodes for each node, it has M non-leaf nodes
Find the no of leaf nodes?




April 04, 2007 03:34:41 #10
 abhishek   Member Since: Visitor    Total Comments: N/A 

RE: An N-ary tree has N sub-nodes for each node, it ha...
 
Let total height of N-ary tree == i
According to question leaf nodes exists only at last level , i.e at ith level
so
N^0 + N^1 + ...............+ N^(i-1) = M
on solving this , we get :
N^(i) = M(N-1) + 1
which is equal to total no. of  leaf nodes
     

 

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