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DIY: Divide Chocolate

Understand how to divide a chocolate bar into pieces by making optimal cuts to maximize the minimum total sweetness you can obtain. This lesson helps you develop problem-solving skills applicable to coding interviews by translating a real-world scenario into an algorithmic challenge.

Problem statement

You have one chocolate bar that consists of some chunks. Each chunk has its own sweetness given by the array sweetness. You have s friends that you want to share the chocolate with. You cut the chocolate using k cuts and get k + 1 pieces, where ...