the fundamental map operationsas shown in code fragment code fragment the fundamental methods of the map adtimplemented with hash table that uses separate chaining to resolve collisions among its entries for each fundamental map operationinvolving key kthe separate-chaining approach delegates the handling of this operation to the miniature list-based map stored at [ ( )soput(kvwill scan this list looking for an entry with key equal to kif it finds oneit replaces its value with votherwiseit puts (kvat the end of this list likewiseget(kwill search through this list until it reaches the end or finds an entry with key equal to and remove(kwill perform similar search but additionally remove an entry after it is found we can "get awaywith this simple list-based approachbecause the spreading properties of the hash function help keep each bucket' list small indeeda good hash function will try to minimize collisions as much as possiblewhich will imply that most of our buckets are either empty or store just single entry this observation allows us to make slight change to our implementation so thatif bucket [iis emptyit stores nulland if [istores just single entry ( , )we can simply have [ipoint directly to the entry (kvrather than to list-based map holding