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Grokking the Coding Interview Patterns in JavaScript

Solution: Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers

Understand how to apply the top K elements pattern to solve the problem of hiring exactly K workers at minimum cost by ensuring proportional pay and wage expectations. Learn to calculate wage-to-quality ratios, use a greedy approach, and optimize selection with a max heap to minimize total wages efficiently.

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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} ...