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Leetcode: 857. Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers.
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# Leetcode: 857. Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers. | |
# https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-cost-to-hire-k-workers/ | |
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# Accepted. | |
# Thanks God, Jesus Christ! | |
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# Runtime: 159 ms, faster than 43.32% of Python3 online submissions for | |
# Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers. | |
# Memory Usage: 18.9 MB, less than 78.93% of Python3 online submissions for | |
# Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers. | |
class Solution: | |
# Copied from the Leetcode solution. | |
def mincostToHireWorkers(self, quality: List[int], wage: List[int], k: int) -> float: | |
n = len(quality) | |
total_cost = float("inf") | |
current_total_quality = 0 | |
wage_to_quality_ratio = [] | |
# Calculate wage-to-quality ratio for each worker | |
for i in range(n): | |
wage_to_quality_ratio.append((wage[i] / quality[i], quality[i])) | |
# Sort workers based on their wage-to-quality ratio | |
wage_to_quality_ratio.sort(key=lambda x: x[0]) | |
# Use a heap to keep track of the highest quality workers | |
highest_quality_workers = [] | |
# Iterate through workers | |
for i in range(n): | |
heapq.heappush(highest_quality_workers, -wage_to_quality_ratio[i][1]) | |
current_total_quality += wage_to_quality_ratio[i][1] | |
# If we have more than k workers, | |
# remove the one with the highest quality | |
if len(highest_quality_workers) > k: | |
current_total_quality += heapq.heappop(highest_quality_workers) | |
# If we have exactly k workers, | |
# calculate the total cost and update if it's the minimum | |
if len(highest_quality_workers) == k: | |
total_cost = min( | |
total_cost, current_total_quality * wage_to_quality_ratio[i][0] | |
) | |
return total_cost |
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