Path Sum

Easy

leetcode· Java· 2026-08-09Problem link ↗

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Runtime

0 ms

Beats 100%

Memory

44.5 MB

Beats 96.58%

Problem

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 are 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

Solution

Java

import java.util.*;

class Solution {
    public boolean hasPathSum(TreeNode root, int targetSum) {
        if (root == null) {
            return false;
        }
        if (root.left == null && root.right == null) {
            return root.val == targetSum;
        }
        return hasPathSum(root.left, targetSum - root.val) || hasPathSum(root.right, targetSum - root.val);
    }
}