SELLCOIN - Editorial

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Author: raysh07
Tester: sushil2006
Editorialist: iceknight1093

DIFFICULTY:

Cakewalk

PREREQUISITES:

None

PROBLEM:

Chef has A silver coins and B gold coins.
He can sell a silver coin for 1 rupee, and convert a gold coin to two silver coins.
How much money can he earn in total?

EXPLANATION:

Each silver coin can be sold for 1 rupee, so A silver coins will result in A rupees.
Each gold coins can be converted into two silver coins, which sell for two rupees each. So, each gold coin is effectively worth 2 rupees; hence with B of them that’s 2B rupees overall.

Thus, the total money Chef can earn is

A + 2B

TIME COMPLEXITY:

\mathcal{O}(1) per testcase.

CODE:

Editorialist's code (PyPy3)
a, b = map(int, input().split())
print(a + 2*b)