I'm confused on lists

Question

i don't understand how you find out how many times a number repeats in a list. please help.

Answer 1

I will try not to give you the classical algorithm, but rather an outline, so you can code it yourself.

How do you count the number of occurrences in a list ? You go through all the list and if the item you are looking at is identical or (just) equal to the one you want, increment the count.

That's it. Have a go