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Approximately how many comparisons in the worst case would need to be made on a sorted...

Approximately how many comparisons in the worst case would need to be made on a sorted list of size 290 if we used a binary searching algorithm?

a. between 0 and 10

b. between 10 and 50

c. between 50 and 100

d. between 100 and 1000

e. more than 1000

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worst case number of comparisons = log2(290) = 8.17

a. between 0 and 10

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