Top N by score in JavaScript

JavaScript interview exercise on Arrays, difficulty 2 of 3. Solve it in the editor beside a worked example; the tests run the moment you do.

Write topN(students, n) that returns the names of the n highest-scoring students, highest first. students is an array of { name, score }.

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