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textbook question:A method returning an array of letters with their highest point value in any country My question: I am trying to make a new method return an array of letters with the highest point value in any country. i have already made one method that finds out if the country has a letter with a value of ten. But I cant figure out how to make one that will print out the letter that is the highest value in each country. Just for some extra help I have included another method I have already written.

Extra clarification for question that professor gave: the array to be returned by the first non-constructor method described is to be an array of `int`, laid out so that the slot indexed with 0 holds the requested value for `'a'`, the slot indexed with 1 holds the requested value for `'b'`, and so on.

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public class TenScrabble
  
{

  
String[] countries = {"America", "Canada", "Chile", "Mexico", "Germany",
"Norway", "Russia", "Japan", "Sweden", "Iraq"};
  
private char[] letters = {'a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o',
'p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z'};
  
  
private int[][] values= new int[10][26]; //Could also use new int[countries.length][letters.length]
  
  
  
public TenScrabble()
{
/*Randomizes the letter values*/
for (int c = 0; c < countries.length; c++)
{
Random randGen = new Random();
for (int l = 0; l < letters.length; l++)
{

values[c][l] = randGen.nextInt(10) + 1;
}
}
}//end of constructor
  
  
  
public char[] highestLetters()
{
char[] highestValueLetter = new char[countries.length];

  
for(int i =0; i< values.length; i++)
{
int max = Integer.MIN_VALUE;//placeholder which sets the max to the smallest possible number
char highestLetter = 'a';
  
for(int j=0; j < values[i].length;j++)
{
if(values[i][j] > max)
{
max = values[i][j];
highestLetter = letters[j];
  
}
  
}
highestValueLetter[i] = highestLetter;
  
}
  

  
  
return highestValueLetter;
  

}//end of highestLetters
  
  

  
  

  

/*Prints out countries that have a letter with a value of 10*/
public void getLetterValue10()
{
int countriesWithValue = 0;//keeps track of the number of countries with value so it can print out none if none show up
  
System.out.println("Countries that have a letter with a value of 10");
for(int i = 0; i < values.length;i++)
{
for(int j =0; j<values[0].length;i++)
{
if(values[i][j] == 10)
{
System.out.println(countries[i]);
countriesWithValue++;
}
break;//breaks out of inner loop
}
}
  
  
/*If no countries have a letter with a value of 10 it prints out message to inform user*/
if(countriesWithValue == 0)
{
System.out.println("No countries have a letter with a value of 10");
}
  
  

}//end of getLetterValue10

Answer 1

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CODE:

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import java.util.*;

class Main {

String[] countries = {"America", "Canada", "Chile", "Mexico", "Germany",

"Norway", "Russia", "Japan", "Sweden", "Iraq"};

private char[] letters = {'a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o',

'p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z'};

private int[][] values= new int[10][26];

public void TenScrabble()

{

for (int c = 0; c < countries.length; c++)

{

Random randGen = new Random();

for (int l = 0; l < letters.length; l++)

{

values[c][l] = randGen.nextInt(10) + 1;

}

}

}

/*Prints out countries that have a letter with a value of ten*/

public void getLetterValue10()

{

int countriesWithValue = 0;

System.out.println("Countries that have a letter with a value of 10");

for(int i = 0; i < values.length;i++)

{

for(int j =0; j < values[i].length; j++)

{

if(values[i][j] == 10)

{

System.out.println(countries[i]);

countriesWithValue++;

}

break;//breaks out of inner loop

}

}

/*If no countries have a letter with a value of 10 it prints out message to inform user*/

if(countriesWithValue == 0)

{

System.out.println("No countries have a letter with a value of 10");

}

}//end of getLetterValue10

public char[] getHighestValueLetters()

{

char[] highestValueLetters = new char[10];

for(int i = 0; i < values.length; i++)

{

char maxLetter = 'a';

int highest = -1;//Let highest value be -1 for the country

for(int j = 0; j < values[i].length; j++)

{

if(values[i][j] > highest)

{

highest = values[i][j];

maxLetter = letters[j];

}

}

highestValueLetters[i] = maxLetter;

}

return highestValueLetters;

}//End of getHighestValueLetters

public static void main(String[] args) {

Main m = new Main();

m.TenScrabble();

m.getLetterValue10();

char[] highestLetters = m.getHighestValueLetters();

System.out.println("Highest letter value for each country:");

for(int i = 0; i < highestLetters.length; i++)

System.out.println(highestLetters[i]);

}

}

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