Total Parking Minutes per Vehicle

PandasEasyJunior level~10 min

Problem

A `parking_event` DataFrame logs garage stays. Each row has `vehicle_id`, `park_date`, `enter_min` (the minute the vehicle entered) and `exit_min` (the minute it left). A vehicle may park several times in one day.

For each `park_date` and `vehicle_id`, return the total number of minutes the vehicle spent parked that day. Output columns `day` (the `park_date`), `vehicle_id`, and `total_minutes`.

Input data

Example rows — the live problem includes the full dataset.

parking_event

vehicle_id	park_date	enter_min	exit_min
1	2026-02-10	30	90
1	2026-02-10	100	130
2	2026-02-10	0	45
1	2026-02-11	60	80

Expected output

Your answer should return 3 rows with the columns day, vehicle_id, total_minutes.

Starter code (Pandas (Python))

import pandas as pd

def total_parking_minutes(parking_event: pd.DataFrame) -> pd.DataFrame:
    # Your code here
    return parking_event

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