Investable Periods
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A trading firm predicts the stock prices of a commodity for the next n days. A period of consecutive days is considered investable if the maximum price in the period is max_price , and the minimum price in the period is min_price . Find the number of investable periods in the next n days.
More formally, given an array price of length n , find the number of subarrays in which the maximum element is max_price and the minimum element is min_price . Note: A subarray is a sequence of consecutive elements of the array.
Function Description
Complete the function countInvestablePeriods in the editor below.
countInvestablePeriods has the following parameters:
- int price[n] : the predicted prices for the next n days
- int max_price : the maximum price of an investable period
- int min_price : the minimum price of an investable period
Returns
long integer : the number of investable periods
Example 1 :
Input: price = [4, 5, 3, 3, 1], max_price = 5, min_price =
3
Output: 4
Explanation:
Here, the periods [4, 5, 3], [4, 5, 3, 3], [5, 3], and [5, 3, 3] are
investable.
Example 2 :
Input: price = [2, 2, 1, 5, 1], max_price = 2, min_price =
1
Output: 2
Explanation:
The periods [2, 2, 1] and [2, 1] are investable.
Constraints:
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