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Generic Minimum and Maximum with Pair<A, B>

Problem

Write a generic class Pair<A, B> (two private final fields, a constructor, getFirst() and getSecond()) and a single generic method

static <T extends Comparable<T>> Pair<T, T> minMax(List<T> items)

that returns a pair (minimum, maximum) of a list, or null for an empty list. Use compareTo only — no sorting, no Collections.min.

The program reads n followed by n integers, then m followed by m words, and uses the same minMax method for the List<Integer> and the List<String>. Output:

Input:

5
4 -3 12 0 7
3
pear apple fig

Output:

Numbers: min=-3 max=12
Words: min=apple max=pear

When a list is empty, print Numbers: empty or Words: empty. Words are compared with String.compareTo (so upper-case letters come before lower-case ones).

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