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2073. Time Needed to Buy Tickets (Easy)
There are n
people in a line queuing to buy tickets, where the 0th
person is at the front of the line and the (n - 1)th
person is at the back of the line.
You are given a 0-indexed integer array tickets
of length n
where the number of tickets that the ith
person would like to buy is tickets[i]
.
Each person takes exactly 1 second to buy a ticket. A person can only buy 1 ticket at a time and has to go back to the end of the line (which happens instantaneously) in order to buy more tickets. If a person does not have any tickets left to buy, the person will leave the line.
Return the time taken for the person at position k
(0-indexed) to finish buying tickets.
Example 1:
Input: tickets = [2,3,2], k = 2 Output: 6 Explanation: - In the first pass, everyone in the line buys a ticket and the line becomes [1, 2, 1]. - In the second pass, everyone in the line buys a ticket and the line becomes [0, 1, 0]. The person at position 2 has successfully bought 2 tickets and it took 3 + 3 = 6 seconds.
Example 2:
Input: tickets = [5,1,1,1], k = 0 Output: 8 Explanation: - In the first pass, everyone in the line buys a ticket and the line becomes [4, 0, 0, 0]. - In the next 4 passes, only the person in position 0 is buying tickets. The person at position 0 has successfully bought 5 tickets and it took 4 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 8 seconds.
Constraints:
n == tickets.length
1 <= n <= 100
1 <= tickets[i] <= 100
0 <= k < n
Similar Questions:
Solution 1. Brute Force Simulation
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// OJ: https://leetcode.com/problems/time-needed-to-buy-tickets/ // Time: O(SUM(A)) // Space: O(1) class Solution { public: int timeRequiredToBuy(vector<int>& A, int k) { int step = 0; while (true) { for (int i = 0; i < A.size(); ++i) { if (A[i] == 0) continue; A[i]--; ++step; if (A[k] == 0) return step; } } } };
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// Todo
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class Solution: def timeRequiredToBuy(self, tickets: List[int], k: int) -> int: ans = 0 for i, t in enumerate(tickets): if i <= k: ans += min(tickets[k], t) else: ans += min(tickets[k] - 1, t) return ans ############ # 2073. Time Needed to Buy Tickets # https://leetcode.com/problems/time-needed-to-buy-tickets class Solution: def timeRequiredToBuy(self, tickets: List[int], k: int) -> int: if tickets[k] == 0: return 0 A = deque([(index, t) for index, t in enumerate(tickets) if t > 0]) time = 0 while A: n = len(A) for _ in range(n): index, t = A.popleft() time += 1 if index == k and t == 1: return time if t - 1 > 0: A.append((index, t - 1))
Solution 2. One Pass
For i <= k
, A[i]
contributes min(A[k], A[i])
steps.
For i > k
, A[i]
contributes min(A[k] - 1, A[i])
steps.
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// OJ: https://leetcode.com/problems/time-needed-to-buy-tickets/ // Time: O(N) // Space: O(1) class Solution { public: int timeRequiredToBuy(vector<int>& A, int k) { int ans = 0; for (int i = 0; i < A.size(); ++i) { ans += min(A[k] - (i > k), A[i]); } return ans; } };
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// Todo
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class Solution: def timeRequiredToBuy(self, tickets: List[int], k: int) -> int: ans = 0 for i, t in enumerate(tickets): if i <= k: ans += min(tickets[k], t) else: ans += min(tickets[k] - 1, t) return ans ############ # 2073. Time Needed to Buy Tickets # https://leetcode.com/problems/time-needed-to-buy-tickets class Solution: def timeRequiredToBuy(self, tickets: List[int], k: int) -> int: if tickets[k] == 0: return 0 A = deque([(index, t) for index, t in enumerate(tickets) if t > 0]) time = 0 while A: n = len(A) for _ in range(n): index, t = A.popleft() time += 1 if index == k and t == 1: return time if t - 1 > 0: A.append((index, t - 1))
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