Assuming that i have seed bag sizes of 1kg, 2 kg, and 5kg. And my clients typically have a land size between 0.25 and 5 acres and will plant 10kgs per acre.What formualar can i use to calculate for each client the number of 5kg, 2kg and 1kg seed bags they need for planting. In the calculation, i want to try to assign the larger bags first while avoiding to assign half bags to a client as much as possible.

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Let   m be the seeds in kilograms you need and       b    i   be the number of bags of size   i kilograms needed.Then      b    5    =      ⌊                  ⌈        m        ⌉            5        ⌋        b    2    =      ⌊                  ⌈        m        ⌉        −        5                  b          5                    2        ⌋        b    1    =  ⌈  m  ⌉  −  5      b    5    −  2      b    2  Don&#039;t think there is a much nicer explicit formula.There&#039;s always the option of calculating all the possibilities beforehand (there&#039;s only 50 of them and using a program is possible).

Assuming that i have seed bag sizes of 1kg, 2 kg, and 5kg. And my clients typically have a land size

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