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Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers

Understand how to calculate the least amount of money needed to hire k workers while ensuring wages meet minimum expectations and pay is proportional to quality. Explore problem constraints and apply heap-based methods to optimize hiring costs effectively.

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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 ...