Please tell my mistake

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Your code will fail in test case

1
4
1 0 1 1

Here answer should be 1300 as

  • 2nd month → 1100 (Rent + Late fees) +
  • 3rd month → 100 (As a late fees) +
  • 4th month → 100 (As a late fees) == 1300, but in your case it’s 1200

What you are missing is that if we ever encounter a zero, all the months will be affected by it even if all are 1’s. so you can’t decrement like zero-- in your code.

Hope this helps
Thank you

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remove
zero-- ;
from your code
for eg,
if input is
1
3
0 1 1
answer must be 1300 but your code gives 1200