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mostCommon

Language/Type: Java Scanner Strings
Author: Marty Stepp (on 2013/01/07)

Write a method named mostCommon that accepts a string parameter and returns the word that occurs most frequently in the string. Words are separated by one or more spaces. Any duplicate words will occur consecutively. If there is a tie, use the word that occurred earlier. You may assume that the string contains at least one word. For example, the following call will return "Kim" because the word Kim occurs 3 times:

mostCommon("Ben Eric  Eric  Marty Kim Kim Kim  Jenny  Nancy Nancy  Nancy Paul  Paul")
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This is a method problem. Write a Java method as described. Do not write a complete program or class; just the method(s) above.

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