Back-end Developer Challenge 1

By Software Development and Integration Team

Car Rental Problem

Time: 40-90 minutes.

Given the car rental cost as the following table.

Size Seat Capacity Cost (PHP)
Small (S) 5 5000
Medium (M) 10 8000
Large (L) 15 12000

Write a console application that:

  1. Read input number (seat) from the command line
  2. Calculate optimized cost (the cheapest) from the specified number (seat) and print results as below examples.
Please input number (seat): 20
M x 2
Total = PHP 16000

In case there are 2 or more optimized solutions you may print only 1 solution for example.

Please input number (seat): 30
M x 3
Total = PHP 24000

Or

Please input number (seat): 30
L x 2
Total = PHP 24000

** (Optional) Extra points,

Also try to write another version of the solution that can support generic number of seat and cost. For example:

  • If the Medium size car seating capacity is changed from 10 to 9 OR
  • If the Large size car cost is changed from 12,000 to 11,000 OR both values are changed, your solution will still find the cheapest cost.

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Please do not ask anyone else for help. We want to see how you code.

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