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Solution: Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers

Explore how to hire exactly k workers while minimizing total cost by applying the top K elements pattern. Understand the wage-to-quality ratio concept and use a max heap to efficiently select workers ensuring proportional payment. This lesson guides you through sorting, greedy selection, and heap management to solve the problem optimally.

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 ...