Find out which combinations of numbers in a set add up to a given total

Question

I\'ve been tasked with helping some accountants solve a common problem they have - given a list of transactions and a total deposit, which transactions are part of the depos

Answer 1

Depending on your data you could first look at the cents portion of each transaction. Like in your initial example you know that 2.50 has to be part of the total because it is the only set of non-zero cent transactions which add to 50.