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Q51.
Which of the following is true?

a.

The complement of a recursive language is recursive.

b.

The complement of a recursively enumerable language is recursively enumerable.

c.

The complement of a recursive language is either recursive or recursively enumerable.

d.

The complement of a context-free language is context-free.

Discuss
Answer: (a).The complement of a recursive language is recursive.
Q52.
The C language is:

a.

A context free language

b.

A context sensitive language

c.

A regular language

d.

Parasble fully only by a Turing machine

Discuss
Answer: (a).A context free language
Q53.
Ram and Shyam have been asked to show that a certain problem Π is NP-complete. Ram shows a polynomial time reduction from the 3-SAT problem to Π, and Shyam shows a polynomial time reduction from Π to 3-SAT. Which of the following can be inferred from these reductions ?

a.

Π is NP-hard but not NP-complete

b.

Π is in NP, but is not NP-complete

c.

Π is NP-complete

d.

Π is neither NP-hard, nor in NP

Discuss
Answer: (c).Π is NP-complete
Q54.
Nobody knows yet if P = NP. Consider the language L defined as follows. Which of the following statements is true ?

a.

L is recursive

b.

L is recursively enumerable but not recursive

c.

L is not recursively enumerable

d.

Whether L is recursive or not will be known after we find out if P = NP

Discuss
Answer: (a).L is recursive
Q55.
If the strings of a language L can be effectively enumerated in lexicographic (i.e., alphabetic) order, which of the following statements is true ?

a.

L is necessarily finite

b.

L is regular but not necessarily finite

c.

L is context free but not necessarily regular

d.

L is recursive but not necessarily context free

Discuss
Answer: (d).L is recursive but not necessarily context free
Q56.
Consider the following deterministic finite state automaton M. Let S denote the set of seven bit binary strings in which the first, the fourth, and the last bits are 1. The number of strings in S that are accepted by M is

a.

1

b.

5

c.

7

d.

8

Discuss
Answer: (c).7
Q57.
Let G = ({S}, {a, b} R, S) be a context free grammar where the rule set R is S → a S b | SS | ε . Which of the following statements is true?

a.

G is not ambiguous

b.

There exist x, y, ∈ L (G) such that xy ∉ L(G)

c.

There is a deterministic pushdown automaton that accepts L(G)

d.

We can find a deterministic finite state automaton that accepts L(G)

Discuss
Answer: (c).There is a deterministic pushdown automaton that accepts L(G)
Q58.
Define languages L0 and L1 as follows :

L0 = {< M, w, 0 > | M halts on w}
L1 = {< M, w, 1 > | M does not halts on w}

Here < M, w, i > is a triplet, whose first component. M is an encoding of a Turing Machine, second component, w, is a string, and third component, i, is a bit. Let L = L0 ∪ L1. Which of the following is true ?

a.

L is recursively enumerable, but L' is not

b.

L' is recursively enumerable, but L is not

c.

Both L and L' are recursive

d.

Neither L nor L' is recursively enumerable

Discuss
Answer: (a).L is recursively enumerable, but L' is not
Q59.
Consider the NFA M shown below. Let the language accepted by M be L. Let L1 be the language accepted by the NFA M1, obtained by changing the accepting state of M to a non-accepting state and by changing the non-accepting state of M to accepting states. Which of the following statements is true ?

a.

L1 = {0, 1}* - L

b.

L1 = {0, 1}*

c.

L1 ⊆ L

d.

L1 = L

Discuss
Answer: (b).L1 = {0, 1}*
Q60.
The following finite state machine accepts all those binary strings in which the number of 1's and 0's are respectively.

a.

divisible by 3 and 2

b.

odd and even

c.

even and odd

d.

divisible by 2

Discuss
Answer: (a).divisible by 3 and 2
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