Hi,i used this example for practicing,supposed to be easy one,but,abit confusing.
Can you help to solve and point to mistakes i've done.
Postman Pat became bored one night at the postal sorting office
and to break the monotony of the nightshift, he carried out the following
experiment with a row of mailboxes (all initially closed) in the post office.
These mailboxes are numbered 1 through to 150, and beginning with mailbox 2,
he opened the doors of all the even-numbered mailboxes. Next,
beginning with mailbox 3, he went to every third mailbox,
opening its door if it was closed and closing it if it was open.
Then he repeated this procedure with every fourth door, then every fifth door,
and so on. When he finished, he was surprised at the distribution of closed mailboxes
. Write a program to determine and display which mailboxes these were (i.e. which doors were closed at the end of the process).
Can someone guide with the step/by step,please
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Jump to PostUntil you post your code I can only say that we don't do your homework for you. You have the solution algorithm in the pseudo-code. Just apply the language to the solution.
Jump to PostSame answer. It is your problem to figure out. Describe first here what you think you should do to solve your conundrum. Describe how you might do it, step by step. Plain language is OK - code can come later.
Jump to PostEach mailbox is either closed or open, so you could represent the mailboxes by an array of ints, which are assigned the value 0 or 1, to represent closed or open. Or an array of booleans. Start by assigning all of them to one value (say, 1) to represent closed. …
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