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Problem: Bus Routes

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40 min
Explore how to solve the bus routes problem by applying graph theory and algorithmic strategies. Understand how to determine the fewest bus changes needed to travel between two stations, reinforcing skills in graph traversal and interview problem-solving.

Statement

You are given an array, routes, representing bus routes where routes[i] is a bus route that the ithi^{th} bus repeats forever. Every route contains one or more stations. You have also been given the source station, src, and a destination station, dest. Return the minimum number of buses someone must take to travel from src to dest, or return -1 if there is no route.

Constraints:

  • 11 \le routes.length 50\le 50
  • 11 \le routes[i].length 100\le 100
  • 00 \le routes[i][j] <1000< 1000
  • 00 \le src, dest <1000< 1000
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Problem: Bus Routes

hard
40 min
Explore how to solve the bus routes problem by applying graph theory and algorithmic strategies. Understand how to determine the fewest bus changes needed to travel between two stations, reinforcing skills in graph traversal and interview problem-solving.

Statement

You are given an array, routes, representing bus routes where routes[i] is a bus route that the ithi^{th} bus repeats forever. Every route contains one or more stations. You have also been given the source station, src, and a destination station, dest. Return the minimum number of buses someone must take to travel from src to dest, or return -1 if there is no route.

Constraints:

  • 11 \le routes.length 50\le 50
  • 11 \le routes[i].length 100\le 100
  • 00 \le routes[i][j] <1000< 1000
  • 00 \le src, dest <1000< 1000
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