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Solution: Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers

Explore how to find the minimum cost to hire exactly K workers by applying the top K elements pattern. This lesson explains proportional pay based on worker quality and wage expectations, teaches you to use sorting and max heaps to optimize the selection process, and helps you compute the least total wage efficiently under given constraints.

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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 ...