Consider the same code as given in above question. What does the function print() do in general?

The function print() receives root of a Binary Search Tree (BST) and a positive integer k as arguments.

// A BST node
struct node {
    int data;
    struct node *left, *right;
};

int count = 0;

void print(struct node *root, int k)
{
    if (root != NULL && count <= k)
    {
        print(root->right, k);
        count++;
        if (count == k)
          printf(\"%d \", root->data);
       print(root->left, k);
    }
}

(A) Prints the kth smallest element in BST
(B) Prints the kth largest element in BST
(C) Prints the leftmost node at level k from root
(D) Prints the rightmost node at level k from root


Answer: (B)

Explanation: The function basically does reverse inorder traversal of the given Binary Search Tree. The reverse inorder traversal produces data in reverse sorted order. Whenever a nod is visited, count is incremented by 1 and data of a node is printed only when count becomes k.

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