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 ## Problem:
 This is a meta-exercise: the project is to optimally group
-people of different skils together for an event such as project night.
+people of different skills together for an event such as project night.
 Further, to make it challenging, the goal is to use Core Python and no
 imported libraries (except for [`random`][random]).