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Solution: Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers

Understand how to apply the top k elements pattern with heaps to hire k workers at the minimum cost while satisfying wage expectations and proportional pay based on work quality. Learn to use ratio sorting and max heaps to optimize total payment.

Statement

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 ...