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Solution: Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers

Explore how to determine the minimum cost to hire exactly k workers while ensuring proportional pay based on quality and meeting wage expectations. Learn to apply the top k elements pattern with a greedy approach using wage-to-quality ratios and optimize selections with a max heap. This lesson helps you understand the algorithm's time and space complexity for an efficient solution.

Statement

You are given nn workers, each characterized by two attributes:

  • quality[i]: Represents the work quality of the ithi^{th} worker.

  • wage[i]: Represents the minimum wage expectation of the ...