the Apgar medical groip keeps patient file for each doctorin the office. each re

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the Apgar medical groip keeps patient file for each doctorin the office. each record contains the patient's first and last name, home address and birth year. the records are sorted in ascending birth year order. two doctors, Dr. Best and Dr. Crushing, have formed a partnership.

A. design a logic that produced a merged list of patients' names in ascending order by birth year.

B. modify the program so that it does not display patients' names, but only produces a count of the number of patinets born each tear.

Explanation / Answer

b) MODIFIED

Pseudocode:

start
   perform housekeeping( )
   while bothDone = "N"
       perform mainLoop( )
   endwhile
   perform finishUp( )
stop

housekeeping( )
   declare variables
   open files
   private static void insertInOrder (Comparable[ ] item, int m)
{
Comparable save = item[m];
for(; m > 0 && item[m -1].
compareTo (save) > 0; m--)
item[m] = item[m
-
1];
item[m] = save;

       endif
   endif
return

readJefferson( )
   read jeffRec
   if eof then
       jeffId = 9999
   endif
return

readAudubon( )
   read audRec
   if eof then
       audId = 9999
   endif
return

mainLoop( )
   if jeffId > audId then
       write audId, audLast, audFirst, audAddress
       perform readAudubon( )
   else
       write jeffId, jeffLast, jeffFirst, jeffAddress
       perform readJefferson( )
   endif
  

finishUp( )
   close files
return

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