How do you solve Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers on LeetCode?

Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers (LeetCode #857) can be solved using Brute Force. The optimal approach is Brute Force with undefined time complexity and undefined space complexity. Key insight: The brute force approach involves generating all possible combinations of workers and calculating the cost for each combination. This is straightforward but inefficient for larger inputs.

What is the time complexity of Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers?

The optimal solution for Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers runs in undefined time and uses undefined space. undefined

What algorithm or data structure is used to solve Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers?

Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers uses the following concepts: Array, Greedy, Sorting, Heap (Priority Queue). The recommended patterns to study are: .

#857

Minimum Cost to Hire K Workers

Hard

ArrayGreedySortingHeap (Priority Queue)

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Approaches

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Intuition

Time Space

The brute force approach involves generating all possible combinations of workers and calculating the cost for each combination. This is straightforward but inefficient for larger inputs.

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Algorithm

3 steps

1Step 1: Generate all combinations of k workers from the n workers.
2Step 2: For each combination, calculate the total cost based on the minimum wage expectations and their qualities.
3Step 3: Keep track of the minimum cost found across all combinations.

solution.py13 lines

1# Full working Python code
2from itertools import combinations
3
4def minCostToHireWorkers(quality, wage, k):
5    n = len(quality)
6    min_cost = float('inf')
7    for combo in combinations(range(n), k):
8        total_quality = sum(quality[i] for i in combo)
9        cost = 0
10        for i in combo:
11            cost += max(wage[i] * total_quality / quality[i], wage[i])
12        min_cost = min(min_cost, cost)
13    return min_cost

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