Using a for-loop we show how to print an "angle" shape with the letter x.

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                          x
                        x
                      x
                        x
                          x
                            x

There are two parts to the shape, a downward left direction, then a downward right direction. Breaking down a job into smaller tasks is often the best problem-solving strategy, and here the two directions can be different tasks.

For the downward left direction, the repetition consists of printing n (some number) of spaces, then "x", so that each iteration decreases n.

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for n in [7,5,3,1]:
   print n*' ' + 'x'

For the downward right direction, the same idea can work, but with each iteration increasing n.

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for n in [1,3,5,7]:
   print n*' ' + 'x'

Putting these two loops into one program results in:

The code doesn't quite produce what we'd starting out to do. Can you find a way to fix it?