Hudson River Trading–styleSoftware EngineerAlgorithm EngineerQuestion #24

Given a function that takes a sentence as a string, write the missing conditions in the if/else statements to return 'digit' if the first character is a number, 'Upper' if it is an uppercase letter, or 'Lower' if it is a lowercase letter.

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