Solution: Assign Cookies
Explore a greedy algorithm to solve the assign cookies problem by matching the smallest satisfying cookie to each child's greed factor, maximizing satisfied children. Understand the two-pointer technique, sorting steps, and analyze the time and space complexity to implement this efficient solution.
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Statement
You are given two integer arrays:
greedFactors: This array represents the minimum cookie size required for each child to be content. Specifically,greedFactors[i]denotes the minimum cookie size that childiwill accept to be satisfied.cookieSizes: This array represents the sizes of the available cookies. For example,cookieSizes[j]denotes the size of cookiej.
Your objective is to distribute the cookies in a way that maximizes the number of content children. A child i is content if they receive a cookie that is at least as large as their greed factor, i.e., cookieSizes[j] >= greedFactors[i]. Each child can be assigned at most one cookie, which can only be given to one child.
Write an algorithm to maximize the number of children who can be content by assigning available cookies appropriately.
Constraints:
greedFactors.length...