Question: Captain Algos needs your help analyzing the flight path of her drone over a mountain range. The drone s altitude at different points is recorded

Captain Algos needs your help analyzing the flight path of her drone over a mountain range. The
drones altitude at different points is recorded in an array, and it forms a peak.
A peaked array has the property that the subarray A[1..i] has the property that the altitude increases steadily,
i.e. A[j]< A[j +1] for 1 j A[j +1] for i j < n. Using a flight simulator, she notes the
following peaked array A =[7,8,10,15,16,23,19,17,4,1], as an example.
1. She needs to find the highest point to ensure the drone has enough battery and can handle the pressure
changes. Write a recursive algorithm (pseudocode) that takes asymptotically sub-linear time to find the
maximum element of A. Please write the complete pseudocode in algorithmic style. Use algortihm package
in latex. Please give a brief explanation of different aspects of your code.
2. Prove that your algorithm is correct. (Hint: can we use induction/ Loop invariance)

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