Feature #7: Optimize Delivery Cost
Explore how to optimize delivery costs for package shipments by leveraging cumulative sums and the remainder theorem. This lesson helps you understand how to identify consecutive packages whose total weight fully utilizes cost increments based on truck capacities, improving logistics efficiency.
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In addition to other important tasks, Amazon’s logistic division is responsible for delivering packages. They have partnered with many delivery services so that the orders can reach customers quickly. One of the carrier companies has pricing criteria; we want to use that criterion to our advantage so that we can deliver maximum packages at minimum cost. This carrier is willing to send one or more trucks for deliveries as needed, but they charge in increments of lbs. The vendor has different size trucks (in increments of lbs) available. Anything below lbs costs $10. Whereas, anything between and ...