Exercise: Sort by Occurrences

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Write an OrderByOccurrences method

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Author’s Note: This is an interview question I got when applying for my last position as a software engineer.

Write an OrderByOccurrences method to sort a collection of numbers by the frequency of occurrences of its elements.

For example, the list [3,2,2,3,3,1] after sorted by occurrences would be [1,2,2,3,3,3] since 1 appears once; 2, twice; and 3, three times. If two numbers have the same frequency, they should be in ascending order.

To complete this exercise, fill in the body of the OrderByOccurrences method.

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