Simple Coding Exercise | Dataford Interview Questions

Exela Smart Office utilities need a small formatting helper that produces a standard alphabet and a multiplication table for a requested size. Implement a function that returns both results in a predictable structure.

Given a positive integer n, return a dictionary with:

alphabet: the uppercase English alphabet from A through Z as one string.
table: a two-dimensional list where row i - 1, column j - 1 contains i * j for 1 <= i, j <= n.

The multiplication table should use one-based values, so the first row contains 1, 2, ..., n and the first column contains 1, 2, ..., n.

Constraints

1 <= n <= 100
The alphabet contains exactly 26 uppercase English letters.
The multiplication table has n rows and n columns.

Function Signature

def generate_alphabet_and_table(n):

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