XMASTREE - Editorial

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Author: raysh07
Tester: sushil2006
Editorialist: iceknight1093

DIFFICULTY:

TBD

PREREQUISITES:

None

PROBLEM:

Chef bought N Christmas trees for A rupees each, and sold M of them for B rupees each.
Find his overall profit.

EXPLANATION:

Buying N trees for A rupees each is an expenditure of N\cdot A rupees.
Selling M trees for B rupees each gives an income of M\cdot B rupees.

Thus, Chef’s overall profit, which is equal to his income minus his spending, is

M\cdot B - N\cdot A

TIME COMPLEXITY:

\mathcal{O}(1) per testcase.

CODE:

Editorialist's code (PyPy3)
n, a, m, b = map(int, input().split())
print(m*b - n*a)