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4. (10 pts.)If we add one more partition step in find-pivot function in selecting problem, and use 3 as the size of each subarray, the algorithm would become: function find-pivot (A, k) Partition A into n/3 subarrays; Let M be the list of medians of these n/3 subarrays; Partition M into n/9 subarrays; Let M' be the list of medians of these n/9 subarrays;return selection(M',M' /2) end function; Analyze the running time of the new selection algorithm with the find-pivot function described above.

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