Solution: Boats to Save People
Explore the greedy technique to solve the boats to save people problem by pairing the lightest and heaviest individuals under a weight limit. Understand how sorting and two-pointer strategy optimize the process to use the fewest boats, emphasizing algorithm efficiency and practical implementation.
Statement
A big ship with numerous passengers is sinking, and there is a need to evacuate these people with the minimum number of life-saving boats. Each boat can carry, at most, two persons however, the weight of the people cannot exceed the carrying weight limit of the boat.
We are given an array, people, where people[i] is the weight of the ...