What’s the largest pollution values?

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One of the interesting questions to explore is, “Which city has the worst pollution?” The program below figures that out for the PM 2.5 value. It will read all the data in, then set max25 (the maximum PM 2.5 value) to zero. It will then loop through all the city data and if the current pollution (in new25) is greater than max25, it will save that value in max25 and save that city name as maxCity. We need the float function to convert the string into a number that we can compare.

Replace the lines that start with a comment (a #) below to find the city with the highest PM 10 pollution. If you have trouble solving this, you can look at the other tab which shows a solution.

Change the lines that start with a comment (a #) below to find the city with the highest PM 10 pollution.

The following program prints the maximum PM 2.5 pollution found, but the code is mixed up. Drag the blocks of statements from the left column to the right column and put them in the right order. Then click on <i>Check Me</i> to see if you are right. You will be told if any of the lines are in the wrong order or have the wrong indention.

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