My 2018 Mercer Solutions/Data


Mercer hasn't posted the data for this contest, but one of our coaches had a copy of what were likely the test files used in the contest. I have uploaded these here so students have some test files. Two problems (9, 12) had bad data during the contest, so I am just posting solutions and data for the other 10 problems. Almost all 10 of these data files were the exact ones in the contest. I only edited prob10.in because the input in the contest didn't always put a * sign between a coefficient and its x term and I felt that based on the write up it was safe to assume that * was there so long as the coefficient wasn't an unwritten 1 or -1.

Here is the problem set.
Problem Solution Input Output
Arena Survival arena_arup.java prob1.in prob1.out
Best Burger in Macon bestburger.java prob2.in prob2.out
Clump Finding clump.java prob3.in prob3.out
Comedy Show comedyshow.java prob4.in prob4.out
Dog Park dogpark.java prob5.in prob5.out
Drizzle drizzle_arup.java prob6.in prob6.out
Great Race race_arup.java prob7.in prob7.out
Kangaroo Words kangaroo.java prob8.in prob8.out
Nth Derivative nthderivative.java prob10.in prob10.out
Schrodinger's Character schrodinger.java prob11.in prob11.out