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Consider a standard Circular Queue implementation (which has the same condition for Queue Full and Queue Empty) whose size is $11$ and the elements of the queue are $q[0], q[1], \ldots q[10]$.

The front and rear pointers are initialized to point at $q[2]$. In which position will the ninth element be added?

1. $q[0]$
2. $q[1]$
3. $q[9]$
4. $q[10]$
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in circular queue front =rear queue is empty

(rear+1) mod n == front queue is full

1st element inserted at q[2] 2nd at q[3] and so on so 9th element inserted at q[10]

answered by Veteran (30.7k points)
Pooja please explain your approach of solving.

 @Pooja: hi I wanna ask you something about the answer you answered in this question: if the front and rear starts at index 2 then the array will be like this 2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  0   1     ------>    INDEX 0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7   8   9  10    ------> ELEMENT So 9th element will be in the 8th  right starts from 0th ordering? So answer should be 10 right? Please correct me if I am wrong.
front and rear at q[2] then first element is at q[3] na
I think it is implementation dependent, where we are inserting the first element...
i think first element is inserted at q[3].
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in a circular queue if front=rear then the queue is empty, insert first element at q[2] thus the ninth element will go to q[10].
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