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Solution: Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers

Understand how to solve the minimum cost to hire k workers using the top k elements pattern. Learn to calculate wage-to-quality ratios, apply a greedy approach, and use a max heap to efficiently select workers while respecting proportional pay rules.

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 ...