Problem 3050. Scrabble Scores - 5

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This problem is part of a set of problems that successively develop a more sophisticated Scrabble scoring routine. The point distribution for scoring is provided <a href = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions#English">here</a>. (Use the English points distribution.)For this problem, you will be provided with a set of words for each player in a game of Scrabble. The number of players may vary from two to four. The word set for each player will be provided in a cell array of strings; you'll need to use nargin and varargin to read in varying numbers of cell arrays for each test case. Write a function to calculate and return the total score for each player in a vector equal in length to the number of players.Related problems:Previous problem: 4 - <a href = "https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/3081-scrabble-scores-4">Word-set multiplier scoring</a>. Next problem: 6 - <a href = "https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/3051-scrabble-scores-6">Board scoring</a>.

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