NEARESTEXIT - Editorial

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Author: Utkarsh Gupta
Testers: Utkarsh Gupta, Jatin Garg
Editorialist: Nishank Suresh

DIFFICULTY:

387

PREREQUISITES:

None

PROBLEM:

In a bus with 100 seats, a passenger will always choose to exit from the side closest to their seat. The left exit is beside seat 1 and the right exit is beside seat 100.
Which exit will a passenger at seat X choose?

EXPLANATION

The left exit is closer to seats 1, 2, \ldots, 50, and the right exit is closer to the other seats.

So, the solution is to print “Left” if X \leq 50 and “Right” otherwise.

TIME COMPLEXITY

\mathcal{O}(1) per test case.

CODE:

Editorialist's code (Python)
for _ in range(int(input())):
    x = int(input())
    print('Left' if x <= 50 else 'Right')