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Problem: Maximum Points After Enemy Battles

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30 min
Explore how to apply greedy algorithm strategies to maximize points by carefully managing energy through two types of operations. Understand when to expend energy to defeat enemies or regain energy by marking enemies. This lesson helps you develop optimal decision-making skills for energy-based problem solving in coding interviews.

Statement

You are given an integer array enemyEnergies where each element represents the energy value of an enemy, and an integer currentEnergy representing your initial energy.

You start with 00 points, and all enemies are initially unmarked. You may perform either of the following operations any number of times to accumulate points:

Operation 1 — Choose an unmarked enemy i such that currentEnergy >= enemyEnergies[i]:

  • Your points increase by 11.

  • Your energy decreases: currentEnergy = currentEnergy - enemyEnergies[i].

Operation 2 — If you have at least 11 point, choose any unmarked enemy i:

  • Your energy increases: currentEnergy = currentEnergy + enemyEnergies[i].

  • Enemy i becomes marked.

Return the maximum number of points you can achieve by performing these operations optimally.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq enemyEnergies.length 105\leq 10^5

  • 11 \leq enemyEnergies[i] 109\leq 10^9

  • 00 \leq currentEnergy 109\leq 10^9

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Problem: Maximum Points After Enemy Battles

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30 min
Explore how to apply greedy algorithm strategies to maximize points by carefully managing energy through two types of operations. Understand when to expend energy to defeat enemies or regain energy by marking enemies. This lesson helps you develop optimal decision-making skills for energy-based problem solving in coding interviews.

Statement

You are given an integer array enemyEnergies where each element represents the energy value of an enemy, and an integer currentEnergy representing your initial energy.

You start with 00 points, and all enemies are initially unmarked. You may perform either of the following operations any number of times to accumulate points:

Operation 1 — Choose an unmarked enemy i such that currentEnergy >= enemyEnergies[i]:

  • Your points increase by 11.

  • Your energy decreases: currentEnergy = currentEnergy - enemyEnergies[i].

Operation 2 — If you have at least 11 point, choose any unmarked enemy i:

  • Your energy increases: currentEnergy = currentEnergy + enemyEnergies[i].

  • Enemy i becomes marked.

Return the maximum number of points you can achieve by performing these operations optimally.

Constraints:

  • 11 \leq enemyEnergies.length 105\leq 10^5

  • 11 \leq enemyEnergies[i] 109\leq 10^9

  • 00 \leq currentEnergy 109\leq 10^9