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    Alex works at a clothing store and must pair socks of the same color from a pile containing various colored socks. The problem is to write a function that takes the colors of each sock and returns the number of complete matching pairs that can be made. The sample input shows a pile of 9 socks with colors [10, 20, 20, 10, 10, 30, 50, 10, 20] and the number of matching pairs that can be made is 3.

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    Alex works at a clothing store and must pair socks of the same color from a pile containing various colored socks. The problem is to write a function that takes the colors of each sock and returns the number of complete matching pairs that can be made. The sample input shows a pile of 9 socks with colors [10, 20, 20, 10, 10, 30, 50, 10, 20] and the number of matching pairs that can be made is 3.

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    Sock Merchant English

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    Alex works at a clothing store and must pair socks of the same color from a pile containing various colored socks. The problem is to write a function that takes the colors of each sock and returns the number of complete matching pairs that can be made. The sample input shows a pile of 9 socks with colors [10, 20, 20, 10, 10, 30, 50, 10, 20] and the number of matching pairs that can be made is 3.

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    Sales by Match

    Alex works at a clothing store. There is a large pile of socks that must be paired by color for sale. Given an array of
    integers representing the color of each sock, determine how many pairs of socks with matching colors there are.

    For example, there are socks with colors . There is one pair of color and one of color
    . There are three odd socks left, one of each color. The number of pairs is .

    Function Description

    Complete the sockMerchant function in the editor below. It must return an integer representing the number of
    matching pairs of socks that are available.

    sockMerchant has the following parameter(s):

    n: the number of socks in the pile

    ar: the colors of each sock

    Input Format

    The first line contains an integer , the number of socks represented in .


    The second line contains space-separated integers describing the colors of the socks in the pile.

    Constraints

    where

    Output Format

    Return the total number of matching pairs of socks that Alex can sell.

    Sample Input

    9
    10 20 20 10 10 30 50 10 20

    Sample Output

    Explanation

    /
    Alex can match three pairs of socks.

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