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Subject StacksLevel Senior–Staff~35 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Design a stack that pops the most frequent element. Process ops: ['push', x] pushes x; ['pop'] removes and returns the most frequent element, breaking ties by returning the one pushed most recently among the maximally frequent. Return the list of popped values. pop is never called on an empty structure.

Implement
freq_stack(ops: list[list]) → list[int]
Examples
in[[["push",5],["push",7],["push",5],["push",7],["push",4],["push",5],["pop"],["pop"],["pop"],["pop"]]]out[5,7,5,4]
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State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

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