Question

Your friend Raphael is an elementary school teacher. He has n students in his class, numbered 1,2,...,n. On a particularly chilly Wednesday, he decides to lure his students into attending his class by giving away candies to each of them. However, some children are mischievous and take more candies than allotted. The students who get lesser candies thus get sad, and need to be comforted. Therefore, Raphael wants your help in determining the index of the student who is the least happy.

Write a program in C++ that asks the user for an integer n, and then asks the user to input n different integers. Store these integers in an array. Print the index of the student who receives the minimum number of candies.

If more than one student gets the least number of candies, you can print any one of them.

Sample Output:
Please enter the number of students (n): 5
Please enter the number of candies student 1 got: 3
Please enter the number of candies student 2 got: 4
Please enter the number of candies student 3 got: 2
Please enter the number of candies student 4 got: 1
Please enter the number of candies student 5 got: 3

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Answer 1

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
  
   int n;
  
   //reading number of students
   cout<<"Please enter the number of students (n):";
   cin>>n;
  
   int i=1;
   int min =i,mini;//min index
   int curr;
   while(i<=n)
   {
       cout<<"Please enter the number of candies student "<<i<<" got:";
       cin>>curr;
      
       if(i==1)
       {
           mini=i;
           min =curr;  
       }
       else
       {
           if(curr<min)
           {
               min = curr;
               mini =i;  
           }
              
       }
       i++;
   }
   cout<<mini<<endl;
   return 0;
}

output:

Please enter the number of students (n):5
Please enter the number of candies student 1 got:3
Please enter the number of candies student 2 got:4
Please enter the number of candies student 3 got:2
Please enter the number of candies student 4 got:1
Please enter the number of candies student 5 got:3
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