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Midterm Questions-checkpoint.ipynb

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𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 1

As you are a student of university now, you need to ensure your assignments

are plagiarism-free. To do this, you decide to design a simple plagiarism

checker. Your checker will take 2 strings as input. Then it will compare

the 2 strings and check how many words they have in common. Then, print the

percentage in common, by calculating:

(No. of words in common / (No of words in string 1 + No of words in string 2)) * 100.

If the calculated plagiarism is greater than or equal to 30%,

print “Plagiarism detected.” Otherwise, print “Good job!”.

Note: you need to compare “words” not individual characters. You can

consider that all characters in both inputs will be in only lowercase or

uppercase.

Answer 1

def plag_checker(input1, input2):
    input1 = input1.lower()
    input2 = input2.lower()
    j = 0
    for i in set(input1.split(' ')):
        if i in set(input2.split(' ')):
            j = j + 1
    if j / (len(set(input1.split(' '))) + len(set(input2.split(' ')))) >= 0.3:
        return 'Plagiarism detected'
    else:
        return 'good job'



plag_checker('what do we have in common', 'we do not have anything in common' )

'Plagiarism detected'