Problem 44947. Find the Oldest Person in a Room

Created by Pooja Lalan

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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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Renato SL on 3 Sep 2019

In the first test suite, Robinson and Reed both have the same age, so I think either the test suite should be improved or Reed's age in the .mat file should be changed.

Anubhav Chaubey on 13 May 2020

Tricky question though

Sivaramarao B on 7 Jun 2020

Good one

Kulbhushan Chand on 9 May 2021

Interesting

Denise Anderson on 21 May 2021

rh x = I don't think you need the [] in your max matrix.

L.J. on 13 Jul 2021

Good job.

Adam Cheng on 29 Jul 2021

where I can get the standard answer?

Derick Mwangi on 5 Oct 2021

Easy staff. Don't think too much. First find the maximum age, then use the index of the maximum age and by using that you'll find the corresponding name.

Isabella Stellitano on 14 Nov 2021

Good problem

Abigail Idiculla on 14 Dec 2021

idk adam

Jamal Badiee on 25 Mar 2022

a challenging problem

Tushar narkhede on 15 May 2022

Good question

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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