Bonus Practice Problems(Pills Finish)

CSE1701 Pills Finish (Id-2333)

Funda has got flu. Her doctor prescribed her 'x' number of 20mg pills, and told her to take a pill every 'y' hours starting from ‘s’ a.m to ‘e’ p.m. Write an algorithm and a Python code to find out,  in how many days Funda will consume 'x' pills. For example, if 'x' is thirty, 'y' is four, ‘s’ is 9 am and ‘e’ is 10 pm then approximately the tablets will be consumed in 8 days. Use ceil function of math module to round the number of days. Time for start and finish of tablet can be read as an integer. Write appropriate functions for accomplishing the task.

Input Format

First line contains the value of 'x', number of pills

Next line contains the value of 'y', number of hours

Next line contains the value of ‘s’

Next line contains the value of ‘e’

Output Format

Approximate number of days to consume tablets, ceil the value got

Input for the problem

First line contains the value of 'x', number of pills

Next line contains the value of 'y', number of hours

Next line contains the value of ‘s’

Next line contains the value of ‘e’

Processing involved

from math import ceil

x,y = int(input()),int(input())

s,e = int(input()),int(input())

time = e-s + 12

pills_per_day = 0

for i in range(0,time,y):

    pills_per_day+=1

no_of_days = ceil(x/pills_per_day)

Output for the problem

Approximate number of days to consume tablets, ceil the value got

Pseudocode

Step1. Get the required data from the user

Step2. Calculate the number of hours available per day

Step3. Calculate the number of pills that can be taken in a day

Step4. Calculate the number of days required.

Step5. End

Program:

from math import ceil

x,y = int(input()),int(input())

s,e = int(input()),int(input())

time = e-s + 12

pills_per_day = 0

for i in range(0,time,y):

    pills_per_day+=1

no_of_days = ceil(x/pills_per_day)

print(no_of_days)