Problem 44947. Find the Oldest Person in a Room

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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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Ben on 11 Jul 2022

not bad

Farooq on 16 Sep 2022

I solved the problem in MATLAB but on here it did not work. I found the index of the maximum number in the variable age, and then used that to output a name with the same index in the name variable.

Qingrui Liu on 7 Dec 2022

not that hard

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