Trouble understanding incorrect Answer

[woven girder]

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[fading jasper]

I'm assuming this is not a balanced tree

in which case the answer you gave for "smallest" is the correct answer for the question on "tallest", because it's a perfectly increasing sequence, so every number will always go to the right

and as such the answer for "smallest" is maybe the worst possible answer because it is in fact the tallest

again, assuming the tree isn't balanced

meaning, balancing/restructuring does not occur on each insert

smaller goes left, larger goes right, no?

what happens if every number is bigger than the previous

what direction do they all go

yes

so how tall is the tree

where tall is a measure of height, i.e. vertical

up and down

with seven numbers could it be any taller?

could it be shorter?

so then that's the worst possible answer for a tree that has the smallest height possible

i.e. least tall

I would assume it's not

otherwise the question doesn't make sense or is a trick question

because the tree you'd get would always be the same

and it would always have the least height possible

thus invalidating the statement that there is only one correct answer

[woven girder]

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