HEADLINES

With great pleasure, we announce Steven Wilson as the winner of “The Weekly Challenge - 035”. Congratulations Steven, you should soon hear from Perl Careers about your reward. For rest of the participants, I would say Good Luck for next time. Keep sending in your solutions and share your knowledge with each other.

A gentle reminder to all members, please send us your nominated solutions for the Advent Calendar 2019. It would be a great help. So far we have shortlisted 4 solutions, 20 more to go for the Advent Calendar 2019. You could email (perlweeklychallenge@yahoo.com) us or PM on twitter.

RECAP

Here is the recap of last week “The Weekly Challenge - 035”.

PERL REVIEW

Please checkout Perl solutions review of the “The Weekly Challenge - 034” by Kian-Meng Ang.

If you missed any past reviews then please checkout the collection.

RAKU REVIEW

Please checkout Raku solutions review of the “The Weekly Challenge - 034” by Laurent Rosenfeld.

Laurent also reviewed Task #1 of “The Weekly Challenge - 005”.

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CHART

Please take a look at the charts showing interesting data.

I would like to thank every member of the team for their valuable suggestions. Please do share your experience with us.

NEW MEMBERS

No new member joined last week.

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Please find out How to contribute?, if you have any doubts.

GUESTS

Please find out past solutions by respected guests. Please do share your creative solutions in other languages.

TASK #1

TASK #2

Write a program to solve Knapsack Problem.

There are 5 color coded boxes with varying weights and amounts in GBP. Which boxes should be choosen to maximize the amount of money while still keeping the overall weight under or equal to 15 kgs?

R: (weight = 1 kg, amount = £1)

B: (weight = 1 kg, amount = £2)

G: (weight = 2 kg, amount = £2)

Y: (weight = 12 kg, amount = £4)

P: (weight = 4 kg, amount = £10)

Bonus task, what if you were allowed to pick only 2 boxes or 3 boxes or 4 boxes? Find out which combination of boxes is the most optimal?

Last date to submit the solution 23:59 (UK Time) Sunday 1st December 2019.