Which of the following algorithms will run in constant time?(1 point)

Question

Responses

traversing an array
traversing an array

accessing an element of an array
accessing an element of an array

sorting an array

Answer 1

The algorithm that will run in constant time is:

accessing an element of an array

Accessing an element in an array takes O(1) time because it directly retrieves the value based on its index without needing to traverse the whole array.

Traversing an array and sorting an array, on the other hand, do not run in constant time; traversing an array runs in O(n) time and sorting typically runs in O(n log n) time for efficient sorting algorithms.