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# 2448. Minimum Cost to Make Array Equal

• Difficulty: Hard.
• Related Topics: Array, Binary Search, Sorting, Prefix Sum.
• Similar Questions: Minimum Moves to Equal Array Elements II, Maximum Product of the Length of Two Palindromic Substrings, Minimum Amount of Time to Fill Cups.

## Problem

You are given two 0-indexed arrays nums and cost consisting each of n positive integers.

You can do the following operation any number of times:

• Increase or decrease any element of the array nums by 1.

The cost of doing one operation on the ith element is cost[i].

Return the **minimum total cost such that all the elements of the array nums become equal**.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,3,5,2], cost = [2,3,1,14]
Output: 8
Explanation: We can make all the elements equal to 2 in the following way:
- Increase the 0th element one time. The cost is 2.
- Decrease the 1st element one time. The cost is 3.
- Decrease the 2nd element three times. The cost is 1 + 1 + 1 = 3.
The total cost is 2 + 3 + 3 = 8.
It can be shown that we cannot make the array equal with a smaller cost.


Example 2:

Input: nums = [2,2,2,2,2], cost = [4,2,8,1,3]
Output: 0
Explanation: All the elements are already equal, so no operations are needed.


Constraints:

• n == nums.length == cost.length

• 1 <= n <= 105

• 1 <= nums[i], cost[i] <= 106

## Solution (Java, C++, Python)

• class Solution {
public long minCost(int[] nums, int[] cost) {
int n = nums.length;
int[][] arr = new int[n][2];
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
arr[i] = new int[]{nums[i], cost[i]};
}
Arrays.sort(arr, (a, b) -> a[0] - b[0]);
long[] f = new long[n + 1];
long[] g = new long[n + 1];
for (int i = 1; i <= n; ++i) {
long a = arr[i - 1][0], b = arr[i - 1][1];
f[i] = f[i - 1] + a * b;
g[i] = g[i - 1] + b;
}
long ans = Long.MAX_VALUE;
for (int i = 1; i <= n; ++i) {
long a = arr[i - 1][0];
long l = a * g[i - 1] - f[i - 1];
long r = f[n] - f[i] - a * (g[n] - g[i]);
ans = Math.min(ans, l + r);
}
return ans;
}
}

• using ll = long long;

class Solution {
public:
long long minCost(vector<int>& nums, vector<int>& cost) {
int n = nums.size();
vector<pair<int, int>> arr(n);
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) arr[i] = {nums[i], cost[i]};
sort(arr.begin(), arr.end());
vector<ll> f(n + 1), g(n + 1);
for (int i = 1; i <= n; ++i) {
auto [a, b] = arr[i - 1];
f[i] = f[i - 1] + 1ll * a * b;
g[i] = g[i - 1] + b;
}
ll ans = 1e18;
for (int i = 1; i <= n; ++i) {
auto [a, _] = arr[i - 1];
ll l = 1ll * a * g[i - 1] - f[i - 1];
ll r = f[n] - f[i] - 1ll * a * (g[n] - g[i]);
ans = min(ans, l + r);
}
return ans;
}
};

• class Solution:
def minCost(self, nums: List[int], cost: List[int]) -> int:
arr = sorted(zip(nums, cost))
n = len(arr)
f = [0] * (n + 1)
g = [0] * (n + 1)
for i in range(1, n + 1):
a, b = arr[i - 1]
f[i] = f[i - 1] + a * b
g[i] = g[i - 1] + b
ans = inf
for i in range(1, n + 1):
a = arr[i - 1][0]
l = a * g[i - 1] - f[i - 1]
r = f[n] - f[i] - a * (g[n] - g[i])
ans = min(ans, l + r)
return ans


• func minCost(nums []int, cost []int) int64 {
n := len(nums)
type pair struct{ a, b int }
arr := make([]pair, n)
for i, a := range nums {
b := cost[i]
arr[i] = pair{a, b}
}
sort.Slice(arr, func(i, j int) bool { return arr[i].a < arr[j].a })
f := make([]int, n+1)
g := make([]int, n+1)
for i := 1; i <= n; i++ {
a, b := arr[i-1].a, arr[i-1].b
f[i] = f[i-1] + a*b
g[i] = g[i-1] + b
}
var ans int64 = 1e18
for i := 1; i <= n; i++ {
a := arr[i-1].a
l := a*g[i-1] - f[i-1]
r := f[n] - f[i] - a*(g[n]-g[i])
ans = min(ans, int64(l+r))
}
return ans
}

func min(a, b int64) int64 {
if a < b {
return a
}
return b
}


Explain:

nope.

Complexity:

• Time complexity : O(n).
• Space complexity : O(n).