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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not bad
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.
not that hard
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