You have m dollars and a group of n friends. For each friend 1 ≤ i ≤n, you know the price P[i] of the piece of candy that would make your friend happy. You want to find a way to distribute the m dollars such that as many of your friends as possible are happy. Design an O(n log n) time greedy algorithm to find how much money you will allocate each friend.

You have m dollars and a group of n friends. For each friend 1 ≤ i ≤n, you know the price P[i] of the piece of candy that would make your friend happy. You want to find a way to distribute the m dollars such that as many of your friends as possible are happy. Design an O(n log n) time greedy algorithm to find how much money you will allocate each friend.

C++ Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program Design

8th Edition

ISBN:9781337102087

Author:D. S. Malik

Publisher:D. S. Malik

Chapter15: Recursion

Section: Chapter Questions

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