WA in Cook Off 54 : Abhijeet and rectangles

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I understood the editorial to the question but why does my approach not work?

My approach-

Sort the lengths and breadth in two different lists and maintain pointers to the first element of each of them. Let’s call these two lists l and b, and the two pointers i and j for our convenience.

Let A1 = l[i] * b[j+1] and A2 = l[i+1] * b[j]

(i.e. A1 = smallest length * second smallest breadth; A2 = second smallest length * smallest breadth)

If A1 < A2 remove the rectangle with shortest length and mark it as removed else remove rectangle with shortest breadth and mark that as removed.
My code

Any help will be appreciated!

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What answer are you getting for this case… Ans should be 10!!

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3 2
2 3
3 3
1 10
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I am getting 9, the code removes the wrong rectangle. Got my mistake! Thanks!