Accenture OA-23 2024

Problem Description

You are working on a financial analyzing tool which represents the daily stock prices of a company over a time. Each element in an integer array A of size N represents the closing price of the stock for a particular day. Your task is to find and return an integer value representing the total number of days where the stock price decreased, indicating negative growth.

Input Format:

• input1: An integer array A containing the closing price of the stock.
• input2: An integer value N representing the size of array

Output Format:

Return an integer value representing the total number of days where the stock price decreased, indicating negative growth.

Constraints:

• 1 ≤ N ≤ 10^5
• 1 ≤ A[i] ≤ 10^9, for every 1 ≤ i ≤ N

Example

Sample Input:

input1: [3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12]
input2: 7

Sample Output:

0

Explanation:
In this example, the stock price is increasing every day. Hence, there are no days with negative growth.