617 Merge Two Binary Trees

Given two binary trees and imagine that when you put one of them to cover the other, some nodes of the two trees are overlapped while the others are not.

You need to merge them into a new binary tree. The merge rule is that if two nodes overlap, then sum node values up as the new value of the merged node. Otherwise, the NOT null node will be used as the node of new tree.

Example 1:

Input:

    Tree 1                     Tree 2                  
          1                         2                             
         / \                       / \                            
        3   2                     1   3                        
       /                           \   \                      
      5                             4   7                  

Output:

Merged tree:
         3
        / \
       4   5
      / \   \ 
     5   4   7

Note:The merging process must start from the root nodes of both trees.

Solution)

if there is non overlapped, the existing node can be returned

if there is overlapped, we can create a new node by summation of the nodes.

/**
 * Definition for a binary tree node.
 * public class TreeNode {
 *     int val;
 *     TreeNode left;
 *     TreeNode right;
 *     TreeNode(int x) { val = x; }
 * }
 */
class Solution {
    public TreeNode mergeTrees(TreeNode t1, TreeNode t2) {
        if (t1 == null) return t2;
        if (t2 == null) return t1;
        // t1 and t2 are overlapped
        TreeNode node = new TreeNode(t1.val+t2.val);
        node.left = mergeTrees(t1.left, t2.left);
        node.right = mergeTrees(t1.right, t2.right);
        return node;
    }
}