Self-Consistency Vote

Problem

Majority-vote over several sampled answers and return the most common one. If there is a tie, return the smallest answer according to sorted order.

The signature is self_consistency_vote(answers).

Hint

Iterating keys in sorted order makes ties deterministic.

case 1

in: [["a","b","a"]]

expected: "a"

case 2

in: [["b","a","a","b"]]

expected: "a"

case 3

in: [["z"]]

expected: "z"

case 4

in: [["a","b","c","a","c"]]

expected: "a"

Starter codePython

def self_consistency_vote(answers):
    # Your code here
    pass

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