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You have a bucket full of gems of 3 colors (i.e. Red, Green, Blue). Each color is > 1 gem. What is the minimum number of gems you would have to take to always ensure that you have 2 of the same color? What if I had n colors?
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Allstate

3.5★
Jul 19, 2018

You have a bucket full of gems of 3 colors (i.e. Red, Green, Blue). Each color is > 1 gem. What is the minimum number of gems you would have to take to always ensure that you have 2 of the same color? What if I had n colors?

# Q1: Write a function to intersect two *sorted* lists (find common elements) # Write a method taking two lists as input, and returning a new list # You can assume you have a reasonable array/list class available (ArrayList, vector, python list, etc) # Ex: # l1 = [1,2,3,4,5] # l2 = [1,5,7,11,100] # result = [1,5]
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Software Engineer/Data Scientist

Interviewed at Tripadvisor

3.5★
Oct 29, 2014

# Q1: Write a function to intersect two *sorted* lists (find common elements) # Write a method taking two lists as input, and returning a new list # You can assume you have a reasonable array/list class available (ArrayList, vector, python list, etc) # Ex: # l1 = [1,2,3,4,5] # l2 = [1,5,7,11,100] # result = [1,5]

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