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Solution: Sum of Distances in a Tree

Understand how to compute the sum of distances from every node to all others in a tree using Depth-First Search. Explore a two-pass DFS strategy that calculates subtree sizes and propagates distance sums, optimizing time complexity to linear. This lesson guides you through implementing and reasoning about this algorithm for connected undirected trees.

Statement

Given a connected, undirected tree with n nodes, labeled from 00 to n1n - 1, and n1n - 1 edges. The edges are provided in an array, where each element edges[i] =[ai,bi] ...