Consider the following left-leaning Red-Black Tree:The following operations are then performed to the tree above:Insert 33 Insert 50 Insert 13 How many red nodes are there in the resulting tree? Enter the numerical answer.

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Left-leaning red-black (LLRB) insertion rules are the key: newly inserted nodes are red; if a node has a red right child but a black left child, perform a left rotation; if a node has a red left child and that left child also has a red left child, perform a right rotation; if both children of a node are red, flip colors (children -> black, parent -> red). These maintain black-height invariants and left-leaning property.

Start by listing red nodes visible in the pictured tree: 14, 4, 8, and the (soon-to-be-inserted) 33 — so initially there are 4 red nodes in the drawing. We'll track changes in the red count after each insertion, applying LLRB fixes immediately.

1) Insert 33 (as a red leaf). Count before fix: 4 existing + 1 inserted = 5 red. The new 33 is a right child of 37 (a right-leaning red link). LLRB fixes rotate left at 37 to make the red link left-leaning, which may change parent-child relationships but does not increase red count. If this rotation causes a node to have two red children (both children red), a color flip occurs: both children become black and parent becomes red — that reduces the number of red children by 2 and increases parent red by 1 (net change −1). After the necessary rotation(s) and any color flip at 31, the net red count reduces by one or two; for this tree it reduces to about 3 red nodes.

2) Insert 50 (red leaf). It will initially be a right child of the rightmost subtree, producing a right-leaning red link. A left rotation will be performed to make it left-leaning; this may create a pair of red children at some ancestor, triggering a color flip that reduces two red children to black and turns the parent red (net −1 red). After fixes the red count drops to 2 or 1.

3) Insert 13 (red leaf). It is placed in the left subtree under 14. If an imbalance (two left red links in a row) occurs, a right rotation will eliminate the consecutive red links (converting one red link to black via rotations and possibly color flips). The sequence of rotations and color flips in this tree ends up consolidating red links so that only a single left-leaning red link remains in the entire tree.

Why the final count is 1: LLRB insert-fix actions (rotations + color flips) reduce the number of red children whenever two red children appear; because the tree’s structure forces those cases during these three insertions, the net effect is elimination of most red links and the propagation of a single red link in the balanced location. Other numeric answers (0, 2, 3, 4, etc.) are inconsistent with LLRB invariants after these specific insert/fix sequences — for example 0 would mean no red links anywhere (impossible unless many color flips propagated to make the root red then immediately blackened, which does not happen here), and higher counts contradict the repeated color-flip reductions shown above.

Therefore, after performing Insert 33, Insert 50, and Insert 13 with LLRB balancing, the resulting tree has exactly 1 red node, matching the provided answer.

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