There are 3 Rings Total Cost | Dataford Interview Questions

Systems Planning and Analysis tracks physical ring operations during equipment assembly. Each attach operation costs 1 rupee, and each break operation costs 4 rupees. Given a sequence of operations, calculate the total cost.

Every operation applies to one ring. For example, if three rings are each attached and broken once, the total cost is 3 × 1 + 3 × 4 = 15 rupees.

Formal Specification

Implement a function that receives:

operations, a list of strings containing only "attach" or "break".
attach_cost, a nonnegative integer cost for one attachment.
break_cost, a nonnegative integer cost for breaking one ring.

Return the total cost as an integer. The order of operations does not affect the result.

Constraints

0 <= len(operations) <= 10^5
Each operation is either "attach" or "break"
0 <= attach_cost, break_cost <= 10^9

Function Signature

def calculate_ring_cost(operations, attach_cost, break_cost):

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