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The total cost of retrieving records in sorted order using an unclustered B+ tree is

(P – Average number of records per data page

N – Data pages

F – Ratio of the size of a data entry to the size of a data record)






Solution

In an unclustered B+ tree, retrieving records in sorted order requires scanning index entries and then fetching records from data pages.


Cost of scanning leaf level entries:


$F \times N$


Number of records:


$P \times N$


So, total cost:


$FN + PN = (F + P)N$


Final Answer: (b) (F + P) * N



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