Inorder Predecessor of Node in BST
https://workat.tech/problem-solving/practice/inorder-predecessor-bst
The inorder predecessor of a node p
is the node q
that comes just before p
in the binary tree's inorder traversal.
Given the root node of a binary search tree and the node p
, find the inorder predecessor of node p
. If it does not exist, return null
.
Testing
Input Format
The first line contains an integer T denoting the number of test cases.
For each test case, the input has 2 lines:
- The first line contains an integer n denoting the number of nodes in the tree (including the NULL nodes).
- The second line contains n space-separated integers that will form the binary tree. The integers follow level order traversal of the tree where -1 indicates a NULL node.
- The third line contains an integer denoting the 0-based index of p in the above list.
Output Format
For each test case, the output contains an integer with the value of the inorder predecessor. In case the predecessor doesn't exist the value is -1.
Sample Input
4
9
2 1 3 -1 -1 -1 5 4 7
2
7
6 3 21 -1 -1 -1 89
1
12
8 3 9 -1 4 -1 10 -1 -1 -1 12 11
11
4
28 14 -1 11
1
Expected Output
2
-1
10
11
1 <= T <= 10
1 <= n <= 105
1 <= node value <= 109