Hi, Aamod, this is quite an interesting problem. I'll appreciate your clarification on test case 2. The toll pricing strategy that maximized the profit was stated as [10, 5, 0]. . Hence, for the given option and budget, the total profit will be 30. But a quick check shows that a toll pricing strategy of [5, 10, 0], which is valid for the given option and budget, also gives a total profit of 30. Unfortunately, the test suite assumes uniqueness of the profit maximizing toll strategy. In such situation, how are we to proceed? Thanks.
I agree, the problem as stated has multiple valid solutions. Could you please change the testsuite to accommodate that?: e.g. by changing "assert(isequal(toll_pricing_strategy(option,budget),y_correct))" to "y=toll_pricing_strategy(option,budget); assert(sum((option*y').*(option*y'<=budget))==sum(option*y_correct'));" which checks whether the solution results in the same revenue as your "optimal" solution...
@Alfonso, I tested your suggestion against the reference solution provided by Aamod Garg (problem author). His solution worked for test cases 2 and 3, but failed 1, 4, and 5 due to that modification (therefore, I reverted to its original state). Do you have a further suggestion to fix this?
@goc3, I would suggest "y=toll_pricing_strategy(option,budget); revenue=@(x)sum((option*x(:)).*((option*x(:))<=budget)); assert(revenue(y)>=revenue(y_correct))". That should allow equivalent or better alternatives to the author's reference solutions (if I am not mistaken this is necessary because in problems 4 and 5 the reference solution does not appear to be optimal; e.g. in problem 5, tolls [18 33 9 14 13 11 12 10] result in 330 revenue, while the reference solution results in 280 revenue)
@Alfonso, the test suite has been updated per your suggestion. It does work against the author's reference solution.
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