Welcome to Weekly Contest 272! Feel free to share and post your contest experience here!

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Links to the individual problems are included below:

Find First Palindromic String in the Array (3 points)

Adding Spaces to a String (4 points)

Number of Smooth Descent Periods of a Stock (5 points)

Minimum Operations to Make the Array K-Increasing (6 points)