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Solution: Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers

Understand how to apply the top k elements pattern to hire exactly k workers at minimum cost while maintaining proportional pay based on quality and wage-to-quality ratios. Explore sorting, heap techniques, and greedy strategies to optimize total wage efficiently within time and space constraints.

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 ...