The recipe's time
- O(n) · Medium
- Full plan
- Python
- JavaScript
- strings
- division
- loops
Problem
Grandma Rose's stew recipe fills three pages, and every step has its time in the margin: "12:30" to brown the meat, "3:45" to chop the onions. Before starting, Sam wants to know how long the whole thing takes. You get a list of strings (it may be empty). Each one is minutes, a colon and seconds: the minutes have one or more digits and the seconds always two, from 00 to 59. Return the total in that same format, as a string: the minutes with no leading zeros, as many digits as needed (they can go past 59 and past 99), and the seconds always in two digits. With ["12:30", "3:45"] you return "16:15". With ["0:40", "0:25"] you return "1:05": 65 seconds are one minute and 5. The empty list gives "0:00".
Examples
Two steps
["12:30", "3:45"] → "16:15"
A single step
["5:07"] → "5:07"
The seconds turn into a minute
["0:40", "0:25"] → "1:05"
A recipe with no steps
[] → "0:00"
Besides these, the challenge has hidden tests that are revealed when you submit your solution.
You start with this
Python
def total_time(steps):
passJavaScript
function totalTime(steps) {
}It opens in your browser, with the editor and the tests. This challenge is part of the full plan; the O(1) and O(log n) ones are free.