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Solution: Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers

Understand and apply the top k elements pattern to solve the problem of hiring k workers at minimum cost. Learn how to use the wage-to-quality ratio and a max heap to efficiently select workers while maintaining proportional pay and wage expectations.

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 ithi^{th} ...