UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS: 2019/2020
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/ BUSINESS INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY/ APPLIED COMPUTING/ SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT/
INFORMATION SECURITY & FORENSCIS
BIT 3101A/ BBIT 106/ BSD 2101/ BISF 2102/ BAC 2102: DATA
STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS
FULL TIME/PART TIME/DISTANCE LEARNING
DATE: MAY, 2020 TIME: 6 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer ALL Questions
SECTION II: PRACTICAL. 20 MARKS.
A retail business must file a monthly sales tax report listing the total sales for the month and the
amount of country and county sales tax collected. The country sales tax rate is 4 percent and the
county sales tax rate is 2 percent of the monthly sales. Design an algorithm in pseudo code and
flow chart (separately) for a program that asks the user to enter the total sales for the month then
calculate and display the following:
• The amount of county sales tax
• The amount of country sales tax
• The total sales tax (county plus country)
20 Marks
SECTION III: APPLICATION. 20 MARKS.
Chaining is a method of resolving Hashing Algorithm Conflicts. A hash algorithm is a calculation that is
applied to transform a key to an address(index). Supposing you are provided with the algorithm below:
eqn => add= key mod n
where add is the address or the index position in an array(where we would like to map our
item in the array)
key = sum of ASCII codes of the elements of an array. i.e for an array having the element
Moe M=77, o=111, e=101 total 289
mod = modulus operation
n is the size of the array
Question
Map the following 10 elements in an array by calculating their addresses using the algorithm above
resolving any conflicts using Chaining Method. Provide a diagram showing your answer to these.
1. Fox
2. Trot
3. Mode
4. Link
5. Milk
6. End
7. Joys
8. Nock
9. TCPIP
10. WEND
20 Marks
