Consider the following function that takes a list of elements (alist) sorted in increasing order and an element (elem) to search in the list. Suppose the length of alist is n. What is the worst case runtime of this algorithm? def search_inc_again(alist, elem):     for i in alist:         if i == elem:             return True         if i > elem:             return False     return False     Question options: a. O(1) b. O(log n) c. O(n) d. O(n^2)

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Consider the following function that takes a list of elements (alist) sorted in increasing order and an element (elem) to search in the list. Suppose the length of alist is n. What is the worst case runtime of this algorithm?

def search_inc_again(alist, elem):
    for i in alist:
        if i == elem:
            return True
        if i > elem:
            return False
    return False
 
 

Question options:

a.

O(1)

b.

O(log n)

c.

O(n)

d.

O(n^2)

 

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