Medium data structure and algorithm practice puzzle.
Given jury votes, 1 for guilty and 0 for not guilty, return "guilty" if more than half voted guilty, "acquit" if more than half voted not guilty, and "hung" otherwise. Count the guilty votes once. An exact split is hung, so the comparison has to be STRICTLY more than half.
Solve it three ways: snap the jigsaw pieces together, fill in the blanks, or type it from scratch against the tests. This one is free.
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