Question

You are given five integers and your task is to find the smallest of them

Answer 1

The minimum number of comparisons to find the smallest number from 5 integers is 4.

How to find the Smallest Integer?

Let the five numbers be a,b,c,d and e.

Let s be an integer

Comparison 1:

a and b will be compared first and the smaller number of them will be equal to s

Comparison 2:

Now, a smaller number between a and b that is s will be compared with c. Similarly, the smaller number of both numbers will be taken as s in the next comparison.

Comparison 3:

Likewise, s and d will be compared and a smaller number will be taken as s for the next comparison

Comparison 4:

Likewise, s and e will be compared and a smaller number will be taken as s for the next comparison.

After 4th comparison, s will be equal to smallest number of 5 integers.

Thus;

Total comparisons = 4

Therefore, the minimum number of comparisons to find the smallest number from 5 integers is 4.

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