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Queries to return the absolute difference between L | Function to return the result for a particular query.
Get the difference between the indices of L - th and the R - th smallest element.
Return the answer.
Function that performs all the queries.
Store the array numbers and their indices.
Sort the array elements.
Answer all the queries.
Driver code"
How can the above be solved in Python?
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#Here is code to queries to return the absolute difference between L and the other steps required.
 def answerQuery ( arr , l , r ) :
	answer = abs ( arr [ l - 1 ] [ 1 ] - arr [ r - 1 ] [ 1 ] )
	return answer
def solveQueries ( a , n , q , m ) :
	arr = [ [ 0 for i in range ( n ) ] for j in range ( n ) ]
	for i in range ( n ) :
		arr [ i ] [ 0 ] = a [ i ]
		arr [ i ] [ 1 ] = i
	arr . sort ( reverse = False )
	for i in range ( m ) :
		print ( answerQuery ( arr , q [ i ] [ 0 ] , q [ i ] [ 1 ] ) )
if __name__ == ' _ _ main _ _ ' :
	a = [ 1 , 5 , 4 , 2 , 8 , 6 , 7 ]
	n = len ( a )
	q = [ [ 2 , 5 ] , [ 1 , 3 ] , [ 1 , 5 ] , [ 3 , 6 ] ]
	m = len ( q )
	solveQueries ( a , n , q , m )