text: # use a hashtable to filter out duplicate items
  
  
  # define a set of items that we want to reduce duplicates
  items = ["apple", "pear", "orange", "banana", "apple",
           "orange", "apple", "pear", "banana", "orange",
           "apple", "kiwi", "pear", "apple", "orange"]
  
  # create a hashtable to perform a filter
  filter = dict()
  
  # loop over each item and add to the hashtable
  for item in items:
      filter[item] = 0
  
  # create a set from the resulting keys in the hashtable
  result = set(filter.keys())
  print(result)
  