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Solution: Two City Scheduling

Explore how to solve the Two City Scheduling problem using a greedy approach. Understand how to minimize interview costs by balancing candidate allocation between two locations. Learn to sort costs by differences and calculate the optimal assignment to save time and resources.

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 A ...