Problem 44947. Find the Oldest Person in a Room

Created by Pooja Lalan

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Given two input vectors:

name - user last names
age - corresponding age of the person

Return the name of the oldest person in the output variable old_name.

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Renato SL on 3 Sep 2019

In the first test suite, Robinson and Reed both have the same age, so I think either the test suite should be improved or Reed's age in the .mat file should be changed.

Anubhav Chaubey on 13 May 2020 at 14:47

Tricky question though

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VINAY SINNUR on 6 May 2020 at 3:09

tricky

SHIVANI CHORGE on 22 May 2020 at 12:02

fist find maximum age then use index of maximum age and by using that find corresponding name

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srisai vangara on 29 Apr 2020 at 16:30

good one.

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Omkar Chavan on 8 Apr 2020

Even typing only "Old_name = 2" resuts in size to be 13. What logic and language did you apply for getting size 8?

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