Editing Intro to Programming and Data Science (Summer 2021)/Day 5 Coding Challenges

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# Write a function that takes a prefix as input and prints the number of boys and girls with that prefix (e.g., get_names("m") would list all names that start with "m" and get_names("ma") would only list those that start with "ma").
# Write a function that takes a prefix as input and prints the number of boys and girls with that prefix (e.g., get_names("m") would list all names that start with "m" and get_names("ma") would only list those that start with "ma").
# Plot (in Excel) the number of people who share a name with n other people in the data set, where n is 4 to 19.
# Plot (in Excel) the number of people who share a name with n other people in the data set, where n is 4 to 19.
# Reuse and modify the code at the end of [https://jeremydfoote.com/Intro-to-Programming-and-Data-Science/day_5/day_5_exercises.ipynb today's notebook] so that it prints a dictionary of the total population of cities that start with each letter of the alphabet.
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