Complete GATE CSE 2026 Paper 2 overview, original pages and practice · Timed previous-paper practice

Questions 31–33 of 65. Imported answers require review unless explicitly marked reviewed.

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Question 31

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Consider the system of linear equations given below.


Suppose the values of a and b are chosen such that the system of linear equations produce multiple solutions. Then the product of a and b is __________. (answer in integer)

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Question 32

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Consider an array

. Suppose the merge sort algorithm is executed on array

to sort it in increasing order. The merge sort algorithm will carry out a total of 7 merge operations.
A merge operation on sorted left array

and sorted right array

is said to be void if the output of the merge operation is the elements of array

followed by the elements of array

.
The number of void merge operations among these 7 merge operations is __________. (answer in integer)

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Question 33

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If an IP network uses a subnet mask of 255.255.240.0, the maximum number of IP addresses that can be assigned to network interfaces is __________. (answer in integer)

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