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The problem is to find the most frequent element in an array and return its index.To find the most frequent element in an array and return its index, we can use a hash map (or dictionary in Python) to count the occurrences of each element and then iterate through the hash map to find the element with the highest frequency. Once we find the most frequent element, we return its index from the original array.
Here is a step-by-step approach in Python:
1. Create an empty dictionary to store the frequency of each element.
2. Iterate through the array, and for each element, increment its count in the dictionary.
3. Find the element with the maximum frequency.
4. Iterate through the array again to find the index of the most frequent element.
5. Return the index.
Here is the code implementing the above steps:
def most_frequent_element_index(arr):
# Step 1: Create a dictionary to store frequencies
frequency = {}
# Step 2: Populate the frequency dictionary
for element in arr:
if element in frequency:
frequency[element] += 1
else:
frequency[element] = 1
# Step 3: Find the element with the maximum frequency
max_frequency = max(frequency.values())
most_frequent_elements = [k for k, v in frequency.items() if v == max_frequency]
# Step 4: Find the index of the first occurrence of the most frequent element
for element in most_frequent_elements:
index = arr.index(element)
return index
# Example usage:
arr = [1, 3, 2, 1, 4, 1]
print(most_frequent_element_index(arr)) # Output: 0 (since 1 is the most frequent element and first occurs at index 0)
In this code, if there are multiple elements with the same highest frequency, it will return the index of the first one encountered in the array.
Please note that the `index` method will return the index of the first occurrence of the element in the array, which is what we need for this problem. If you want the index of the last occurrence, you would need to modify the code to use a different method to track the indices.