Newspaper Delivery Zone Identifier
Newspaper Delivery Zone Identifier
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Arjun is a newspaper delivery boy in Mumbai who needs to find his assigned delivery zone based on house numbers. The zones are defined by ranges of house numbers.
Approach
Given an array of zone boundary house numbers and a target house number, find the zone index.
Input
zones=[100, 250, 400, 550, 700], house=350
Output
2
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