# SPEEDTEST - EditorialED

Author: S. Manuj Nanthan
Testers: Satyam, Jatin Garg
Editorialist: Nishank Suresh

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# PROBLEM:

Alice’s office is A kilometers and she takes X hours to reach it.
Bob’s office is B kilometers and he takes Y hours to reach it.

Who is driving faster?

# EXPLANATION:

Alice’s speed is \frac{A}{X} and Bob’s speed is \frac{B}{Y}. Comparing these two numbers with an if condition is enough to solve the problem.

## I did this, why am I still getting WA?

Note that all four values given in the input are integers, but the speeds need not be. So, directly comparing the values as

if (a/x < b/y) {...}


will not work in languages such as C++ and Java, where / denotes integer division when it operates on integers.

You can test your code on

1
3 3 3 2


and see if your output matches what you expect to see.

To resolve this, there are a couple of options:

• Convert all four values to doubles and do the comparison there, which is still unsafe but will work in this problem since the values of A, B, X, Y are small.
• The better option is to not use division at all. Note that \frac{A}{X} \lt \frac{B}{Y} if and only if A\cdot Y \lt B\cdot X, so you can instead compare the values of A\cdot Y and B\cdot X instead, which works purely with integers and is completely safe.

# TIME COMPLEXITY

\mathcal{O}(1) per test case.

# CODE:

Editorialist's code (C++)
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main() {
int t; cin >> t;
while (t--) {
int a, x, b, y; cin >> a >> x >> b >> y;
if (a*y == b*x) cout << "Equal\n";
else if (a*y < b*x) cout << "Bob\n";
else cout << "Alice\n";
}
}

Editorialist's code (Python)
for _ in range(int(input())):
a, b, x, y = map(int, input().split())
print('alice' if a*y > b*x else ('bob' if a*y < b*x else 'equal'))