Homework 4

The starting point of this assingment is this ad by the Obama campaign during the last election. The ad's "instructions" is ambiguous, but one possible interpretation is to find a subset of states whose areas add up to 47% of total .

You are to write a program (in python or java), using dynamic programming, to answer this question. Your program should either

• output "No, there is no such subset," or
• output "Yes, there is such a subset," and then output a list of states whose areas add up to 47% of total area.

We will use the area data from this wikipedia page. To make sure everybody is using the same set of data, please follow this instruction.

• Use metric system units, i.e., square kilometers.
• Use only the 50 states. Do not include District of Columbia.
• Round all numbers to integers when performing calculation. This is relevant when computing the 47% area, for example.

Submit your program and a README file by emailing them to me.