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Boats to Save People

Explore how to solve the problem of evacuating people with minimum boats using greedy techniques. Understand how to pair individuals within weight limits to optimize boat usage effectively.

Statement

A big ship with numerous passengers is sinking, and there is a need to evacuate these people with the minimum number of life-saving boats. Each boat can carry, at most, two persons however, the weight of the people cannot exceed the carrying weight limit of the boat.

We are given an array, people, where people[i] is the weight of the ithi^{th} person, and an infinite number of boats, where each boat ...