Population puzzle

[Mark Wieder]

Michael-

Sunday, August 24, 2014, 4:52:43 PM, you wrote:

> I know that some of the folks on this list enjoy puzzles.   A
> friend sent me this one this afternoon and I thought it would be
> interesting to see the different approaches folks come up with and
> how fast it can be solved.   enjoy


> The 2010 Census puts populations of 26 largest US metro areas at
> 18897109, 12828837, 9461105, 6371773, 5965343,5946800, 5582170,
> 5564635, 5268860, 4552402, 4335391, 4296250, 4224851, 4192887,
> 3439809, 3279833, 3095313,2812896, 2783243, 2710489, 2543482,
> 2356285, 2226009, 2149127, 2142508, and 2134411.

> Can you find a subset of these areas where a total of exactly
> 100,000,000 people live, assuming the census estimates are exactly
> right? 

This was in the mongodb certification, if I remember correctly, and
the python code was fun to write.

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-Mark Wieder
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