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Sunday, 24 March 2019

The Interview Question Today#9(4-3-19)

QUESTION:
Program to find the maximum amount of water that can be trapped within a given set of bars. (Trapping rainwater problem)


Examples:

 Input: arr[]   = {2, 0, 0,2}
Output: 4
The structure is like below
0
1
2
0
0
4
3
0
We can trap 4 units of water in the middle gap.



SOLUTION:
Approach:

1: With given towerHeight array, create 2 arrays, maxSeenRight and maxSeenLeft.
maxLeft[i]  – max height on left side of Tower[i].
maxRight[i] – max height on right side of Tower[i].
2: Calculate for each tower:
rainwater = rainwater + Max(Min(maxLeft[i], maxRight[i]) – towerHeight[i], 0);
 C program:
#include<stdio.h>

int findWater(int arr[], int n)
{
    int left[n];

    int right[n];

    int water = 0,i;

    left[0] = arr[0];
    for ( i = 1; i < n; i++)
       left[i] = max(left[i-1], arr[i]);

    right[n-1] = arr[n-1];
    for ( i = n-2; i >= 0; i--)
       right[i] = max(right[i+1], arr[i]);

    // Calculate the accumulated water element by element
    // consider the amount of water on i'th bar, the
    // amount of water accumulated on this particular
    // bar will be equal to min(left[i], right[i]) - arr[i] .
    for ( i = 0; i < n; i++)
       water += min(left[i],right[i]) - arr[i];

    return water;
}
int max(int a,int b){
if(a>b)
{
    return a;
}
return b;
}
int min(int a,int b){
if(a<b)
{
    return a;
}
return b;
}

int main()
{
    int arr[100];
    int n,i;
    printf("Enter the Number of Bars present: ");
    scanf("%d",&n);
    printf("\nEnter the Height of Bars");
    for(i=0;i<n;i++)
    {
        printf("\nBar %d:",i+1);
        scanf("%d",&arr[i]);
    }
    printf("Maximum water that can be accumulated is= %d ",findWater(arr, n));
    return 0;
}

OUTPUT:
Enter the Number of Bars present: 4

Enter the Height of Bars
Bar 1:2

Bar 2:0

Bar 3:0

Bar 4:2
Maximum water that can be accumulated is= 4

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