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Problem: Lemonade Change

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30 min
Understand how to determine if correct change can be given to each customer in a lemonade stand scenario. Learn to implement an O(n) time and O(1) space solution that efficiently handles bills of $5, $10, and $20. This lesson helps build skills in managing algorithmic challenges involving tradeoffs between time and space complexity.

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There is a lemonade stand where customers can buy one lemonade at a time for $5\$5 and pay with a $5\$5, $10\$10, or $20\$20 bill. It is necessary to return the correct change to each customer so that the net transaction is completed successfully with a total payment of $5\$5. Note that no change is available initially.

Given an integer array, bills, where bills[i] represents the bill paid by the ithi^{th} customer, return TRUE if it is possible to provide every customer with the correct change, or FALSE otherwise.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq bills.length 500\leq 500

  • bills[i] is either 55, 1010, or 2020.

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Problem: Lemonade Change

Medium
30 min
Understand how to determine if correct change can be given to each customer in a lemonade stand scenario. Learn to implement an O(n) time and O(1) space solution that efficiently handles bills of $5, $10, and $20. This lesson helps build skills in managing algorithmic challenges involving tradeoffs between time and space complexity.

Statement

There is a lemonade stand where customers can buy one lemonade at a time for $5\$5 and pay with a $5\$5, $10\$10, or $20\$20 bill. It is necessary to return the correct change to each customer so that the net transaction is completed successfully with a total payment of $5\$5. Note that no change is available initially.

Given an integer array, bills, where bills[i] represents the bill paid by the ithi^{th} customer, return TRUE if it is possible to provide every customer with the correct change, or FALSE otherwise.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq bills.length 500\leq 500

  • bills[i] is either 55, 1010, or 2020.