Another coding excercise that I believe was for some sort of assessment.
here ya go:
You have been asked to determine the second lowest cost silver plan (SLCSP) for a group of ZIP Codes.
You have been given a CSV file, slcsp.csv, which contains the ZIP Codes in the
first column. Fill in the second column with the rate (see below) of the
corresponding SLCSP. Your answer is the modified CSV file, plus any source code
used.
Write your code in your best programming language.
The order of the rows in your answer file must stay the same as how they
appeared in the original slcsp.csv.
It may not be possible to determine a SLCSP for every ZIP Code given. Check for cases where a definitive answer cannot be found and leave those cells blank in the output CSV (no quotes or zeroes or other text).
The SLCSP is the so-called "benchmark" health plan in a particular area. It is used to compute the tax credit that qualifying individuals and families receive on the marketplace. It is the second lowest cost unique silver rate in the rate area.
A plan has a "metal level", which can be either Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, or Catastrophic. The metal level is indicative of the level of coverage the plan provides.
A plan has a "rate", which is the amount that a consumer pays as a monthly premium, in dollars.
A plan has a "rate area", which is a geographic region in a state that determines the plan's rate. A rate area is a tuple of a state and a number, for example, NY 1, IL 14.
There are two additional CSV files in this directory besides slcsp.csv:
plans.csv-- all the health plans in the U.S. on the marketplacezips.csv-- a mapping of ZIP Code to county/counties & rate area(s)
A ZIP Code can potentially be in more than one county. If the county can not be determined definitively by the ZIP Code, it may still be possible to determine the rate area for that ZIP Code.
A ZIP Code can also be in more than one rate area. In that case, the answer is ambiguous and should be left blank.
We will want to compile your code from source and run it, so please include the complete instructions for doing so in a COMMENTS file.