Question: There are n lockers in a hallway, numbered sequentially from 1 to n . Initially, all the locker doors are closed. You make n passes

There are n lockers in a hallway, numbered sequentially from 1 to n. Initially, all the locker doors are closed. You make n passes by the lockers, each time starting with locker #1. On the ith pass, 1 = 1, 2, you toggle the door of every ith locker: if the door is closed, you open it; if it is open, you close it. Thus, after the first pass every door is open; on the second pass, you only toggle the even-numbered lockers (#2,#4) so that after the second pass the even doors are closed and the odd ones are open; the third time through you close the door of locker #3 (opened from the first pass), open the door of locker #6 (closed from the second pass), and so on.


Develop an algorithm to find which locker doors are open and which are closed after the last pass? How many?

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