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When will QUICKSORT  exhibit its worst runtime performance O(N2)? Consider the following scenarios: (A) PARTITION consistently produces two subarrays, one containing all elements to be sorted, and the other being empty.  (B) PARTITION works with a pivot that is always the largest value among the values to be sorted. (C)  When the pivot element is selected at random for each call to PARTITION. Which scenario(s) will result in worst-case run-time? Group of answer choices Scenarios A and B.  Scenario A. Scenario C. Scenarios A, B, and C.

When will QUICKSORT  exhibit its worst runtime performance O(N2)? Consider the following scenarios: (A) PARTITION consistently produces two subarrays, one containing all elements to be sorted, and the other being empty.  (B) PARTITION works with a pivot that is always the largest value among the values to be sorted. (C)  When the pivot element is selected at random for each call to PARTITION. Which scenario(s) will result in worst-case run-time? Group of answer choices Scenarios A and B.  Scenario A. Scenario C. Scenarios A, B, and C.

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When will QUICKSORT  exhibit its worst runtime performance O(N2)? Consider the following scenarios:

(A) PARTITION consistently produces two subarrays, one containing all elements to be sorted, and the other being empty. 

(B) PARTITION works with a pivot that is always the largest value among the values to be sorted.

(C)  When the pivot element is selected at random for each call to PARTITION.

Which scenario(s) will result in worst-case run-time?

Group of answer choices
Scenarios A and B. 
Scenario A.
Scenario C.
Scenarios A, B, and C. 
 
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