Path Sum🚚
2 min readMar 10, 2022
Given the root
of a binary tree and an integer targetSum
, return true
if the tree has a root-to-leaf path such that adding up all the values along the path equals targetSum
.
A leaf is a node with no children.
Example 1:

Input: root = [5,4,8,11,null,13,4,7,2,null,null,null,1], targetSum = 22
Output: true
Explanation: The root-to-leaf path with the target sum is shown.
Example 2:

Input: root = [1,2,3], targetSum = 5
Output: false
Explanation: There two root-to-leaf paths in the tree:
(1 --> 2): The sum is 3.
(1 --> 3): The sum is 4.
There is no root-to-leaf path with sum = 5.
Example 3:
Input: root = [], targetSum = 0
Output: false
Explanation: Since the tree is empty, there are no root-to-leaf paths.
Constraints:
- The number of nodes in the tree is in the range
[0, 5000]
. -1000 <= Node.val <= 1000
-1000 <= targetSum <= 1000
Java Solution
Time Complexity of below solution O(n), we are simply doing a pre-order traversal on the tree which takes n time.