#860
Easy Algorithms Lemonade change
Array Greedy
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Feb 22, 2026
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At a lemonade stand, each lemonade costs $5. Customers are standing in a queue to buy from you and order one at a time (in the order specified by bills). Each customer will only buy one lemonade and pay with either a $5, $10, or $20 bill. You must provide the correct change to each customer so that the net transaction is that the customer pays $5.
Note that you do not have any change in hand at first.
Given an integer array bills where bills[i] is the bill the ith customer pays, return true if you can provide every customer with the correct change, or false otherwise.
Solution
Rust
Time O(n)
Space O(1)
/*
* At a lemonade stand, each lemonade costs $5. Customers are standing in a queue to buy from you and order one at a time (in the order specified by bills). Each customer will only buy one lemonade and pay with either a $5, $10, or $20 bill. You must provide the correct change to each customer so that the net transaction is that the customer pays $5.
* Note that you do not have any change in hand at first.
* Given an integer array bills where bills[i] is the bill the ith customer pays, return true if you can provide every customer with the correct change, or false otherwise.
* Example 1:
* Input: bills = [5,5,5,10,20]
* Output: true
* Explanation:
* From the first 3 customers, we collect three $5 bills in order.
* From the fourth customer, we collect a $10 bill and give back a $5.
* From the fifth customer, we give a $10 bill and a $5 bill.
* Since all customers got correct change, we output true.
* Example 2:
* Input: bills = [5,5,10,10,20]
* Output: false
* Explanation:
* From the first two customers in order, we collect two $5 bills.
* For the next two customers in order, we collect a $10 bill and give back a $5 bill.
* For the last customer, we can not give the change of $15 back because we only have two $10 bills.
* Since not every customer received the correct change, the answer is false.
* Constraints:
* 1 <= bills.length <= 105
* bills[i] is either 5, 10, or 20.
*/
impl Solution {
pub fn lemonade_change(bills: Vec<i32>) -> bool {
let mut fives = 0i32;
let mut tens = 0i32;
for bill in bills {
match bill {
5 => fives += 1,
10 => {
if fives == 0 { return false; }
fives -= 1;
tens += 1;
}
20 => {
if tens > 0 && fives > 0 {
tens -= 1;
fives -= 1;
} else if fives >= 3 {
fives -= 3;
} else {
return false;
}
}
_ => {}
}
}
true
}
}