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The Travelling Customer (Coding, Training)

The Travelling Customer
In this programming challenge you need to solve the following problem:
You are represented a pricelist, an itemamount and a sum, as well as the stock parameter.
Your job is to select itemamount items which will result in the sum.
You may not select more items than stock from each type.

Example:
Chips=4
Eggs=2

Items=5
Sum=14
Stock=3
Level=1

An accepted answer would be: 2Chips3Eggs

Visit problem.php to request a new problem.
Send your answers to answer.php?answer=[answer] with the format NItemnameNItemname.
You need to solve 5 problems and your timelimit for each problem is 3 seconds.

Good Luck!
Credits
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The comics there are a great inspiration.
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