Cousins in Binary Tree
In a binary tree, the root node is at depth 0
, and children of each depth k
node are at depth k+1
.
Two nodes of a binary tree are cousins if they have the same depth, but have different parents.
We are given the root
of a binary tree with unique values, and the values x
and y
of two different nodes in the tree.
Return true
if and only if the nodes corresponding to the values x
and y
are cousins.
Example 1:

Input: root = [1,2,3,4], x = 4, y = 3
Output: false
Example 2:

Input: root = [1,2,3,null,4,null,5], x = 5, y = 4
Output: true
Example 3:

Input: root = [1,2,3,null,4], x = 2, y = 3
Output: false
Constraints:
The number of nodes in the tree will be between
2
and100
.Each node has a unique integer value from
1
to100
.
class Solution {
public boolean isCousins(TreeNode root, int x, int y) {
Queue<TreeNode> q = new LinkedList<>();
q.add(root);
while (q.size() != 0) {
boolean xFound = false, yFound = false;
int size = q.size();
while (size-- > 0) {
TreeNode node = q.poll();
if (node.val == x)
xFound = true;
if (node.val == y)
yFound = true;
if (node.left != null)
q.add(node.left);
if (node.right != null)
q.add(node.right);
// If x and y belong to same parents
if (node.left != null && node.right != null) {
if ((node.left.val == x && node.right.val == y)
|| (node.left.val == y && node.right.val == x))
return false;
}
}
if (xFound && yFound)
return true;
}
return false;
}
}
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