Problem 577. Repopulate the City

Created by Ned Gulley

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@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 13 Apr 2012

It looks like there's an error in the test suite; test cases 3 and 4 have different length d and n vectors.

Ned Gulley on 13 Apr 2012

Oof! I hate it when that happens. Fixed it. Thanks for the note.

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