Challenge: Find the Person with the Highest Salary

Test your understanding of the concepts we have covered so far by solving a simple challenge in this lesson.

Problem statement

In this challenge, you are provided with the salaries of two people. Your task is to find the person with the highest salary.

Input

We have already initialized the variables salary1 and salary2 at the backend.

  • salary1 belongs to person1.
  • salary2 belongs to person2.

Output

  • If person1 has the highest salary, your program should print person1 to the console.

  • If person2 has the highest salary, your program should print person2 to the console.

Sample input

int salary1 = 56000;
int salary2 = 89000;

Sample output

person2

Coding exercise

Before diving directly into the solution, try to solve it yourself. Then, check if your code passes all the test cases.

📝 Please use the variables salary1 and salary2 for the input and print your output to the console, or your code will not execute.

📝 salary1 and salary2 cannot have equal values.

Good luck! 👍

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