Intractable Problems

This quiz contains MCQs on non-deterministic polynomial time, problem-solving in polynomials, node covers and Hamilton circuit problems.

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If the number of steps required to solve a problem is O(nk), then the problem is said to be solved in

Non-polynomial time

Polynomial time

Infinite time

None of the above

The value of constants like p and e can be calculated in

Polynomial time

Non-polynomial time

Cannot be calculated

None of the above

Which of the following cannot be solved using polynomial time?

Linear programming

Greatest common divisor

Maximum matching

None of the above

The complexity class P consists of all the decision problems that can be solved by __ using a polynomial amount of computation time.

Pushdown automata

DFA

NDFA

Deterministic Turing machine

A generalization of the P class can be

PTIME

DTIME

NP

None of the above

Which of the following options are correct with reference to P-complete problems?

Used for the problems which are difficult to solve in limited space

Every problem in P can be reduced to it using proper reductions

Complete problem for complexity class P

All of the above

A problem X belongs to the P complexity class if there exists __ algorithm to solve that problem, such that a polynomial binds the number of steps of the algorithms in n, where n is the length of the input.

1

2

3

All of the above

Given a Turing machine, an input for the machine, and a number T(unary), the problem to the machine halting on that input within the first T-steps is P-complete. True or false?

True

False

Which of the following is a P-complete type of problem?

Circuit value problem

Linear programming

Context-free grammar membership

All of the above

If the input is binary in the above problem, to which class does the problem belong?

EXPSPACE

DLOGTIME

EXPTIME-complete

All of the above

__ represent(s) an exact cover problem.

Incidence matrix

Bipartite graph

Both incidence matrix and bipartite graph

None of the above

Which of the following problems were reduced to Knapsack?

Exact cover

Max cut

0-1 integer programming

None of the above

For which of the following does the greedy algorithm find a minimal vertex cover in polynomial time?

Tree graphs

Bipartite graphs

All of the above

None of the above

Hamilton’s circuit problem can have the following version(s) as per the input graph

Directed

Undirected

Both directed and undirected

None of the above

Hamilton’s circuit problem is a particular case of

The travelling salesman problem

The halting problem

The hitting set

None of the above

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Intractable Problems
Questions: 15
Contributed by:
Ivan