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Solution: Put Marbles in Bags

Explore how to divide marbles into k bags to compute the difference between maximum and minimum achievable scores. Understand the use of sorting and pairwise adjacent sums to identify optimal cut positions efficiently. This lesson helps you apply the sort and search pattern to solve this combinatorial partitioning problem with clear time and space complexity analysis.

Statement

You are given k bags and a 0-indexed integer array, weights, where weights[i] represents the weight of the ithi^{th} marble.

Your task is to divide the marbles into the k bags according to the following rules:

  1. No bag can be empty.

  2. If the ...