Must give answer in Python or C++. Please do not copy other Chegg answers as they are incorrect.

Select the last activity to start that is compatible with all previously selected activities by using a greedy algorithm. This is similar to a first-to-start algorithm, but in reverse. Make sure to follow the specifications listed below.

Include a verbal description of your algorithm, pseudocode and analysis of the theoretical running time.

The program should read input from a file named act.txt. The file contains lists of activity sets with number of activities in the set in the first line followed by lines containing the activity number, start time & finish time.

Example act.txt:

11

1 1 4

2 3 5

3 0 6

4 5 7

5 3 9

6 5 9

7 6 10

8 8 11

9 8 12

10 2 14

11 12 16

3

3 6 8

1 7 9

2 1 2

In the above example the first activity set contains 11 activities with activity 1 starting at time 1 and finishing at time 4, activity 2 starting at time 3 and finishing at time 5, etc.. The second activity set contains 3 activities with activity 3 starting at time 6 and finishing at time 8 etc. The activities in the file are not in any sorted order. Your results including the number of activities selected and their order should be outputted to the terminal. For the above example the results are:

Set 1

Number of activities selected = 4

Activities: 2 4 9 11

Set 2

Number of activities selected = 2

Activities: 2 1

Note: There is an alternative optimal solution for Set 1. Since activities 8 and 9 have the same start time of 8, 2 4 8 11 would be an alternative solution. Your program only needs to find one of the optimal solutions. For either solution the activities differ from the solution presented in the text which uses the earliest-finish time criteria.