diff --git a/data-structures/Check_for_sparse.cpp b/data-structures/Check_for_sparse.cpp
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+#include<iostream>
+using namespace std;
+int main () {
+   int i, j, count = 0;
+   int row , col;
+  cin>>row>>col;
+  int a[row][col];
+  for (i = 0; i < row; ++i) {
+      for (j = 0; j < col; ++j){
+         cin>>a[i][j];
+      }
+   }
+   for (i = 0; i < row; ++i) {
+      for (j = 0; j < col; ++j){
+         if (a[i][j] == 0)
+         count++;
+      }
+   }
+   cout<<"The matrix is "<<endl;
+   for (i = 0; i < row; ++i) {
+      for (j = 0; j < col; ++j) {
+         cout<<a[i][j]<<" ";
+      }
+      cout<<endl;
+   }
+   cout<<"The number of zeros in the matrix are "<< count <<endl;
+   if (count > ((row * col)/ 2))
+   cout<<"This is a sparse matrix"<<endl;
+   else
+   cout<<"This is not a sparse matrix"<<endl;
+   return 0;
+}