Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford / 2019 / Imperative programming / 5 / b / i

Yes, provided balancing guarantees logarithmic height. In a suitably maintained balanced binary tree of height $O(\log (n+1))$, insertion searches one root-to-leaf path and deletion of the minimum follows the leftmost path. Reconnecting the tree and performing the required rebalancing also costs at most a constant amount per level for the standard logarithmic-time schemes. Thus both operations take $O(\log (n+1))$ time, conventionally written $O(\log n)$ for nontrivial sizes. Merely calling a tree approximately balanced would not prove that height bound; it is the balancing guarantee that matters. Without it, a binary search tree can have linear height.