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The Balanced Cargo Tree

In a binary cargo tree, each node carries a specific weight. A node is 'unbalanced' if the total weight of its left subtree and the total weight of its right subtree differ by more than a given threshold X. Total weight of a subtree is the sum of weights of all nodes in that subtree. Given the tree and X, count how many nodes in the tree are unbalanced. Input Format: Line 1: N X (number of nodes and threshold) Line 2: N integers (weights of nodes 0 to N-1) Next N-1 lines: u v side (u is parent, v is child, side is 0 for left, 1 for right) Example: Input: 3 10 100 50 50 0 1 0 0 2 1 Output: 0

Key concepts

post-order traversalsubtree sumtree recursion

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