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Difficulty: 3 of 5 Latest: Savings Bonds (in Algorithms)
Years ago, U.S. Savings Bonds were sold via payroll deductions. Say a bond worth $25 at maturity was sold for $18.75. You could have a certain amount deducted each pay period and when you built up enough in your bond account to pay the purchase price, you'd get a savings bond, and you might still have an amount left over in you account to go toward you next bond.

Say you had started with 3.75 taken out each pay period. After five such deductions you'd have exactly enough to buy an 18.75 bond. But suppose at some time when you happened to have 7.50 built up in your account you decided you wanted to get bonds more frequently and shifted to having 6.25 taken out each pay period so you'd get a bond every three pay periods. Next pay period you'd have 13.75 in your account, then next time you'd have $20, which is enough to get a bond and have 1.25 left over in your account, followed by a balance of 7.50 the next time, and this cycle would repeat forever, with your balance never going below 1.25. That 1.25 that hangs around in your balance is not helping you get your bond any sooner.

Devise an algorithm or formula so you can determine if such "dead money" is in a person's account, and how large that perpetually low balance is, based on a bond purchase price, the current balance, and the amount deducted each period, so that that lowest balance in the cycle can be refunded to the employee and the cycle will include a zero balance at some point.

Make sure your method allows for the fact that it may take a while before the balance goes to zero. The number given above were chosen to be simple, but allow for deduction amounts that may bear no simple relation to the purchase price.

(No Solution Yet, 1 Comments) Submitted on 2025-04-01 by Charlie   
Difficulty: 2 of 5 Bonus: The smallest sum (in Logic) Rating: 3.00
In each of the three additions below, each letter represents a different digit; however, each letter does not necessarily represent the same digit in one addition as it does in another addition.
          G  A  L  E       E  L  S  A        N  E  A  L  
       +  N  E  A  L    +  G  A  L  E     +  E  L  S  A
       -------------    -------------     -------------
          E  L  S  A       N  E  A  L        G  A  L  E
Which addition has the smallest sum?
(Solution Posted, 4 Comments) Submitted on 2008-08-08 by pcbouhid   
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