Question

By implementing separate chaining using list head we can reduce the number of collisions drastically.

(a) True

(b) False

I'd like to ask this question from Hash Tables topic in section Hash Tables of Data Structures & Algorithms I

The question was posed to me in my homework.

Answer 1

Correct answer is (b) False

Easy explanation - Collision is caused when a hash function returns repeated values. So collisions can be reduced by developing a better hash function. Whereas separate chaining using list head is a collision handling technique so it has no relation with a number of collisions taking place.