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What is the worst-case time complexity of searching for an element in an unsorte
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What is the worst-case time complexity of searching for an element in an unsorted array?
O(1)
O(n)
O(log n)
O(n log n)
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What is the worst-case time complexity of searching for an element in an unsorted array?
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Step 1: Understand what an unsorted array is. An unsorted array is a collection of elements where the order does not matter.
Step 2: Know that searching means looking for a specific element in the array.
Step 3: In the worst-case scenario, the element you are looking for might be the last one in the array or it might not be there at all.
Step 4: To find the element, you would have to check each element one by one until you find it or reach the end of the array.
Step 5: If there are 'n' elements in the array, you may need to check all 'n' elements in the worst case.
Step 6: Therefore, the time it takes to search in the worst case is proportional to the number of elements, which is expressed as O(n).
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