answer:Sure, happy to help! In a standard recursive function, a new stack frame is created each time the function is called. This stack frame saves the current state of the function (such as local variables) and then waits for the next function call to complete before proceeding. When you have a recursive function that does not use tail recursion, a stack of frames is created as the function calls itself repeatedly. This can cause the program to run out of stack space, which will result in a stack overflow error. However, tail recursion optimization is a technique that avoids creating new stack frames for each function call. Instead, the function's state is updated and the previous stack frame is discarded before the next function call. This means that the space required to store the stack when doing a tail-recursive call will not grow beyond the size of a single stack frame. The key requirement for tail recursion optimization is that the recursive call should be the last operation executed in a function. In this case, Scheme's interpreter can optimize the tail recursive call to avoid the extra memory required to create a new stack frame. In our example, the `sum-helper` function is tail-recursive because the last operation, the recursive call `sum-helper (cdr lst) (+ sum (car lst))`, is the same function as `sum-helper`. Because of this, there's no need to create a new stack frame for the function call, as all relevant data (the updated `lst` and `sum` variables) can be stored in the existing frame. Therefore, our implementation of a tail-recursive function makes our computation more efficient by avoiding any stack overflows when we have to process large data.

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