Which of the following scenarios leads to linear running time for a random search hit in a linear-probing hash table?

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• Consider a hash table of size seven, with starting index zero, and a hash function (3x + 4)mod7. Assuming the hash table is initially empty, which of the following is the contents of the table when the sequence 1, 3, 8, 10 is inserted into the table using closed hashing? Note that ‘_’ denotes an empty location in the table.
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• An                          consists of a search-key value and pointers to one or more records with that value as their search-key value.
• In a                clustering index, the index record contains the search-key value and a pointer to the first data record with that search-key value and the rest of the records will be in the sequential pointers.
• A search key containing more than one attribute is referred to as a                    search key.
• An ____________ consists of a search-key value and pointers to one or more records with that value as their search-key value.
• In a _______ clustering index, the index record contains the search-key value and a pointer to the first data record with that search-key value and the rest of the records will be in the sequential pointers.
• A search key containing more than one attribute is referred to as a _________ search key.
• The Average case occur in linear search algorithm