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Solution: Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers

Explore how to determine the least amount of money required to hire exactly K workers while ensuring proportional pay based on quality and minimum wage expectations. Understand applying the top K elements pattern with a max heap and a greedy algorithm to optimize cost.

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 ...