Dont understand the requirements of cash register

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Hi together,
please could someone explaine the requirement of this task? Especially the last Argument (cid) of the given code.
English is not my native language and I am not an US citizen, so I dont realy understand the information in the task and this money system with Penny, Dimme, Nickel.

Sorry for that maybe stupid question.

Thanks.

Challenge: Cash Register

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“Nickel” or “Dime” are just names like “Dollar”, you don’t have to learn them, the challenge provides a table.

To understand what you’re supposed to do, imagine what happens when you buy a pizza.

  • the pizza has a price (say, 8 dollars and a quarter = 8.25 dollars)
  • you pay with a certain coin or bill (say, 10 dollar bill)
  • the vendor checks his cash register to see what change he needs to return to you (does he have enough coins and bills for this)

Your function takes three arguments:

checkCashRegister(19.5, 20, [["PENNY", 1.01], ["NICKEL", 2.05], ["DIME", 3.1], ["QUARTER", 4.25], ["ONE", 90]])

You buy something that costs 19.5 dollars.
You pay with a 20 dollar bill.
The vendor needs to return 0.5 dollars, and he has:

  • 1.01 dollars in pennies (a penny is 0.01 dollars so that’s 101 pennies),
  • 2.05 dollars in nickel coins (a nickel is 0.05 dollars so that’s 41 nickels)
  • and so on

He could give you 50 pennies, for example. He could also give you 2 quarters. Maybe he only has two nickels in his drawer (2 * 0.05 = 0.10 dollars), in which case your function would return “insufficient funds”.

This is one of the tougher challenges, take your time to think it through.

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Thank you for your explanation. That helps me a lot. :slight_smile:

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