Suppose we are given a splay-tree  of  nodes and we present…

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Suppоse we аre given а splаy-tree  оf  nоdes and we present an operation called ELEMENT-CHECK(,) that returns true if element  is the key of some node in splay-tree  and false otherwise. The algorithm works as follows: Beginning at the root of , we walk down a branch of  searching for  making use of the binary search tree property (i.e., if the key of the currently visited node is less than , we take right branch, and if the key of the currently visited node is greater than , we take the left branch). If a node with key  is found, we splay that node to the root of  and return true. If we reach a leaf node without finding a node with key , we simply return false and halt. Can we use the proof of amortized bounds for splay operations seen in lecture to conclude that the amortized cost of ELEMENT-CHECK is 

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