Java Practice It | Exercise 14.4: collapse | Collections, #stacks and #queues , stacks, queues

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Write a method collapse that takes a stack of integers as a parameter and that collapses it by replacing each successive pair of integers with the sum of the pair. For example, suppose a stack stores these values:

bottom [7, 2, 8, 9, 4, 13, 7, 1, 9, 10] top
The first pair should be collapsed into 9 (7 + 2), the second pair should be collapsed into 17 (8 + 9), the third pair should be collapsed into 17 (4 + 13) and so on to yield:

bottom [9, 17, 17, 8, 19] top
If the stack stores an odd number of elements, the final element is not collapsed. For example, the stack:

bottom [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] top
Would collapse into:

bottom [3, 7, 5] top
With the 5 at the top of the stack unchanged. You may use one queue as auxiliary storage.
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