public class Exercise1a
{
  // returns a copy of a with n elements starting at position p removed
  public static int[] remove(int[] a, int p, int n)
  {
  	int m = a.length;
  	int[] b = new int[m-n];
  	for (int i=0; i<p; i++)
  	  b[i] = a[i];
    for (int i=p; i<m-n; i++)
      b[i] = a[i+n];
    return b;
  }
}