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Posted on Aug 13, 2020

Daily Challenge #280 - Driving School

#challenge

Write a function that will charge driving students based on the amount of time they spent in their lessons. This particular school charges for lessons as follows:

Time                            Cost
************************************
Up to 1st hour                   $30
Every subsequent half hour**     $10
** Subsequent charges are calculated by rounding up to nearest half hour.

For example, if student X has a lesson for 1hr 20 minutes, he will be charged $40 (30+10) for 1 hr 30 mins and if he has a lesson for 10 minutes, he will be charged $30 for the full hour.

Out of the kindness of its heart, the driving school also provides a 5 minutes grace period. So, if student X were to have a lesson for 65 minutes, he will only have to pay for an hour. Lessons under 5 minutes are just talks, so they should be considered free.

For a given lesson time in minutes (min), write a function price to calculate how much the lesson costs.

Tests

cost(84)
cost(102)
cost(273)

Good luck!

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Top comments (8)

peter279k • Aug 13 '20

Here is my simple solution with PHP and using while loop to resolve this challenge :).

function cost($mins) {
  if ($mins <= 60) {
    return 30;
  }

  $result = 30;
  $mins -= 60;
  $halfHour = 0;

  while ($mins - 30 > 0) {
    $halfHour += 1;
    $mins -= 30;
  }

  if (30 - $mins >= 0 && $mins >= 6) {
    $halfHour += 1;
  }

  return $result + $halfHour * 10;
}

Avra • Aug 13 '20

Via phone, but this should work:

 function cost(min) {
   let cost = 0;
   min -= 5;
   if (min <= 0) {
     return cost;
   }
   cost += 30; // first hour
   if (min < 60) {
     return cost;
   }
   while (min > 0) {
     min -= 30;
     cost += 10;
   }
   return cost;
 }

Mihail Malo • Aug 14 '20

Rust

pub fn cost(mut mins: usize) -> usize {
    mins = mins.saturating_sub(5);
    if mins == 0 {
        0
    } else {
        30 + mins.saturating_sub(60) / 30 * 10
    }
}

which produces the same assembly as

pub fn cost(mins: usize) -> usize {
    if mins <= 5 {
        0
    } else {
        30 + mins.saturating_sub(65) / 30 * 10
    }
}

Jay • Aug 13 '20

fn cost(mins: u8) -> u8 {
    if mins < 5 {
        return 0;
    }
    if mins < 65 {
        return 30;
    }

    let extra_time = (mins - 60) / 30 + if (mins - 60) % 30 > 5 { 1 } else { 0 };
    return 30 + (extra_time * 10);
}

TJ Johnson • Aug 14 '20

Here's something fun, there is a set of numbers where this doesn't work, anyone up for finding it?

def cost(minutes):
    a = (minutes > 5)*30
    b = ((minutes // 30) & 1020)*10
    c = (minutes % 30 > 5 and minutes > 65)*10
    return a + b + c

Ben Cardinal • Aug 13 '20

def cost(minutes):
   if minutes <= 5:
      return 0

   if minutes <= 65:
      return 30

   minutes -= 65
   # Could also use math.ceil() here but didn't want the dependency on math for this example
   half_hours = minutes // 30 + (minutes % 30 > 0)
   return 30 + half_hours * 10

FJones • Aug 13 '20

minutes => Math.max(0, Math.ceil((minutes-65)/30)*10) + (minutes>5)*30;

For some abuse of weak typing and code golf. Should work.

Gagan • Aug 14 '20

Python

def cost(minutes):
    if minutes <66: return 0 if minutes<6 else 30
    half = (minutes-65)//30 + (((minutes-65)%30)>0)
    return 30 + half*10

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Daily Challenge #280 - Driving School

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Top comments (8)

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