DIY: Divide Chocolate
Explore how to solve the divide chocolate challenge by maximizing the minimum sweetness piece you can get when distributing chocolate among friends. Understand how to approach array segmentation and optimization problems common in coding interviews. This lesson builds skills for breaking down and solving real-world inspired algorithm questions.
We'll cover the following...
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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 K friends that you want to share the chocolate with. You cut the chocolate using K cuts and get K + 1 pieces, where ...