Do Hours Studied and Scores Move Together?
A Fenwick College study asks whether students who put in more hours come out with better exam scores. Each student contributes two figures — hours studied and exam score — and the two rows line up student by student. The study reports the covariance between them: a positive figure means the two tend to be high together, a negative figure means one tends to be high when the other is low, and a figure near zero means they drift independently. These students are a sample drawn from a much larger cohort, so the sample convention is the one the study uses.
Task: Print the sample covariance between the hours row and the scores row.
Input
Three lines. The first holds a single integer n, the number of students. The second holds the n hours figures on one line, separated by single spaces. The third holds the n exam scores, in the same student order.
Output
One line holding the covariance with exactly two digits after the decimal point. A negative covariance carries a leading minus sign.
Example:
Input:
4
1 2 3 4
50 60 70 80
Output:
16.67
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