Today’s evening is New Year’s Eve 2016. Happy New Year 2017!!! By the way, 2017 is a prime number. The next prime will be 2027. Went ahead and took a look at the HackerRank challenge Chocolate Feast. If interested take a look at the description at the following URL: https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/chocolate-feast?utm_campaign=challenge-recommendation&utm_medium=email&utm_source=24-hour-campaign
As usual I first take a look at the Need Help? I then spend time working on 
my solution. After trying and passing the sample tests I read most of the discussions to improve on my solution and try additional tests that other fellow developers have obtained. Finally I go ahead and submit my solution.
Following is a screen capture of the console on the Eclipse IDE:
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4 1 2
10 2 5
12 4 4
6 2 2
43203 60 5
12 4 4
7
6
3
5
899
3
The first case is associated with the description of the challenge. The following three are the sample tests of the challenge. The last two were test cases described in the discussion page.
Following is my Java solution:
import java.util.Scanner;
public class Solution {
/**
* compute number of chocolates per trip
*
* a % m == 0 => a = k * m
*
* (a + b) % n = (a % n + b % n) % n
* (a * b) % n = (a % n * b % n) % n
*/
static int totalChocos(int money, int chocoCost, int wrappersPerChoco) {
int chocos = money / chocoCost;
int wrappers = money / chocoCost;
int additionalChocos = 0;
while (wrappers >= wrappersPerChoco) {
additionalChocos = wrappers / wrappersPerChoco;
wrappers = additionalChocos + (wrappers % wrappersPerChoco);
chocos += additionalChocos;
}
return chocos;
}
/**
* test code
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
int T = sc.nextInt();
for (int trip = 0; trip < T; trip++) {
int money = sc.nextInt();
int chocoCost = sc.nextInt();
int wrappersPerChoco = sc.nextInt();
System.out.println(totalChocos(money, chocoCost, wrappersPerChoco));
}
sc.close();
}
}
It seems like that the Need Help link provided more than what was needed for this challenge. Perhaps some solutions used it.
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Happy and prosperous New Year 2017!!!
John
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