1518. Water Bottles
Description
There are numBottles
water bottles that are initially full of water. You can exchange numExchange
empty water bottles from the market with one full water bottle.
The operation of drinking a full water bottle turns it into an empty bottle.
Given the two integers numBottles
and numExchange
, return the maximum number of water bottles you can drink.
Example 1:

Input: numBottles = 9, numExchange = 3 Output: 13 Explanation: You can exchange 3 empty bottles to get 1 full water bottle. Number of water bottles you can drink: 9 + 3 + 1 = 13.
Example 2:

Input: numBottles = 15, numExchange = 4 Output: 19 Explanation: You can exchange 4 empty bottles to get 1 full water bottle. Number of water bottles you can drink: 15 + 3 + 1 = 19.
Constraints:
1 <= numBottles <= 100
2 <= numExchange <= 100
Solutions
Solution 1
Python3
class Solution:
def numWaterBottles(self, numBottles: int, numExchange: int) -> int:
ans = numBottles
while numBottles >= numExchange:
numBottles -= numExchange - 1
ans += 1
return ans
Java
class Solution {
public int numWaterBottles(int numBottles, int numExchange) {
int ans = numBottles;
for (; numBottles >= numExchange; ++ans) {
numBottles -= (numExchange - 1);
}
return ans;
}
}
C++
class Solution {
public:
int numWaterBottles(int numBottles, int numExchange) {
int ans = numBottles;
for (; numBottles >= numExchange; ++ans) {
numBottles -= (numExchange - 1);
}
return ans;
}
};
Go
func numWaterBottles(numBottles int, numExchange int) int {
ans := numBottles
for ; numBottles >= numExchange; ans++ {
numBottles -= (numExchange - 1)
}
return ans
}
TypeScript
function numWaterBottles(numBottles: number, numExchange: number): number {
let ans = numBottles;
for (; numBottles >= numExchange; ++ans) {
numBottles -= numExchange - 1;
}
return ans;
}
JavaScript
/**
* @param {number} numBottles
* @param {number} numExchange
* @return {number}
*/
var numWaterBottles = function (numBottles, numExchange) {
let ans = numBottles;
for (; numBottles >= numExchange; ++ans) {
numBottles -= numExchange - 1;
}
return ans;
};
PHP
class Solution {
/**
* @param Integer $numBottles
* @param Integer $numExchange
* @return Integer
*/
function numWaterBottles($numBottles, $numExchange) {
$ans = $numBottles;
while ($numBottles >= $numExchange) {
$numBottles = $numBottles - $numExchange + 1;
$ans++;
}
return $ans;
}
}