diff --git a/exercises/book-store/description.md b/exercises/book-store/description.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..912d2cfb9c --- /dev/null +++ b/exercises/book-store/description.md @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +To try and encourage more sales of the 5 different books +they sell of a popular series, a bookshop has decided to +offer discounts of multi-book purchases. + +One copy of any of the five books costs $8. + +If, however, you buy two different books, you get a 5% +discount on those two books. + +If you buy 3 different books, you get a 10% discount. + +If you buy 4 different books, you get a 20% discount. + +If you buy all 5, you get a 25% discount. + +Note: that if you buy four books, of which 3 are +different titles, you get a 10% discount on the 3 that +form part of a set, but the fourth book still costs $8. + +Your mission is to write a piece of code to calculate the +price of any conceivable shopping basket (containing only +books of the same series), giving as big a discount as +possible. + +For example, how much does this basket of books cost? + +- 2 copies of the first book +- 2 copies of the second book +- 2 copies of the third book +- 1 copy of the fourth book +- 1 copy of the fifth book + +One way of grouping these 8 books is: + +- 1 group of 5 --> 25% discount (1st,2nd,3rd,4th,5th) +- +1 group of 3 --> 10% discount (1st,2nd,3rd) + +This would give a total of: + +- 5 books at a 25% discount +- +3 books at a 10% discount + +Resulting in: + +- 5 x (8 - 2.00) == 5 x 6.00 == $30.00 +- +3 x (8 - 0.80) == 3 x 7.20 == $21.60 + +For a total of $51.60 + +However, a different way to group these 8 books is: + +- 1 group of 4 books --> 20% discount (1st,2nd,3rd,4th) +- +1 group of 4 books --> 20% discount (1st,2nd,3rd,5th) + +This would give a total of: + +- 4 books at a 20% discount +- +4 books at a 20% discount + +Resulting in: + +- 4 x (8 - 1.60) == 4 x 6.40 == $25.60 +- +4 x (8 - 1.60) == 4 x 6.40 == $25.60 + +For a total of $51.20 + +And $51.20 is the price with the biggest discount. diff --git a/exercises/book-store/metadata.yml b/exercises/book-store/metadata.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..af215be75f --- /dev/null +++ b/exercises/book-store/metadata.yml @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +--- +blurb: "To try and encourage more sales of different books from a popular 5 book series, a bookshop has decided to offer discounts of multiple-book purchases." +source: "Inspired by the harry potter kata from Cyber-Dojo." +source_url: "http://cyber-dojo.org"