The pointer in the last node of a linked list is often set to NULL because:

A. in a search, we need to have some way of knowing when we’ve reached the end of the list
B. it doesn’t point to anything
C. it prevents memory leak
D. it conserves the memory used in the linked list by 25%


A

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