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Solution: Two City Scheduling

Understand how to apply a greedy technique to solve the Two City Scheduling problem. This lesson teaches you to minimize total interview costs by sorting based on cost differences and assigning candidates evenly between two cities. Learn the step-by-step approach and analyze time and space complexity in C#.

Statement

A recruiter plans to hire n\textbf{\textit{n}} people and conducts their interviews at two different locations of the company. He evaluates the cost of inviting candidates to both these locations. The plan is to invite 50% at one location, and the rest at the other location, keeping costs to a minimum.

We are given an array, costs, where costs[i]=[aCosti,bCosti]costs[i] = [aCost_i, bCost_i], the cost of inviting the ithi^{th} person to City AA is aCostiaCost_i ...