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Author: Stuart Reges (on 2014/02/13)

Write a method runningTotal that returns a new ArrayIntList that contains a running total of the original list. In other words, the i-th value in the new list should store the sum of elements 0 through i of the original list. For example, if a variable list stores the following sequence of values: 

    [2, 3, 5, 4, 7, 15, 20, 7]

and the following call is made: 

    ArrayIntList list2 = list.runningTotal();

Then the variable list2 should store the following sequence of values: 

    [2, 5, 10, 14, 21, 36, 56, 63]

The original list should not be changed by the method. The new list should have the same capacity as the original. Remember that there is a constructor for ArrayIntList that takes a capacity as a parameter: 

    // pre : capacity >= 0
    // post: constructs an empty list with the given capacity
    public ArrayIntList(int capacity)

If the original list is empty, the result should be an empty list.

You are writing a method for the ArrayIntList class discussed in lecture (handouts 3 and 5): 

    public class ArrayIntList {
        private int[] elementData; // list of integers
        private int size;          // current # of elements in the list

        <methods>
    }

You are not to call any ArrayIntList methods other than a constructor to solve this problem and your method must run in O(n) time where n is the size of the list.

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