Question

Hi all - is anyone currently working on Assignment 1: McDiophantine: Selling McNuggets?

I am working on it and would like to see if anyone has any input on how they would approach this (all parts).

Thanks,

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Answer 1

Problem 1 is the proving part. You can either write a program or use a pencil and paper. I did it in the latter method. Just list out the possibilities. For example; 6(0) + 9(6) + 20(0)= 54. Think of others like this one.

Answer 2

do you know how to set up the code? the assignment my teacher gave me was to use "for loops" to prove if the combinations were possible but i keep getting stuck on just trying to set it up, i have written it down on paper and have tried to code it but i keep getting stuck.

Answer 3

Don't know whether I can give you the direct answer since it's an assignment question, but here's a hint: you have to check each and every number combination possible. So you will need to use nested for..... loops. Does that help?

Answer 4

what do you mean by nested? do you mean a "for loop" inside of a "for loop", because that is what i am currently doing but i am not sure what numbers i should be using in the for loops

Answer 5

Yes! nested means a loop inside a loop. The number range is of your choice. Think wisely; the largest number is 55, right? So if you are creating a range for '6', it should be between 0 and 10, right? since 6 x 10 =60, which is above the range of our interest. think like that for 20 and 9 as well.

Answer 6

I have this bit of code so far but i am unsure what i am doing wrong.

int a, b, c, total;
total = 55;

for(a=1; a<total; a++)
{

for(b=1; b<total; b++)
{

for(c=1; c<total; c++)
{

System.out.println(a);
System.out.println(b);
System.out.println(c);

can anyone help me?

Answer 7

You are using like Java. There is no a++ in Python. Python syntax is little bit different. I was doing same kind of mistake. However, I am stuck in first problem of problem set 1 that says get last module of 1000.