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Solution: Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers

Explore how to solve the problem of hiring exactly K workers at the minimum cost while ensuring proportional pay based on quality and wage expectations. Understand the application of the top K elements pattern, using a greedy approach with wage-to-quality ratios, and optimize with a max heap to efficiently manage worker selection and total cost calculation.

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 ...