What is the step count for this in terms of n ?

SequentialSearch(a,x,n)
{
i=n;
a [0]=x;
while(a [i]!= x) do
i = i-1
return i
}

What is your problem, looks simple enough and I think you should be finding average or worst case behaviour complexity in O notation.

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