2742. Painting the Walls

Problem Statement

You are given two 0-indexed integer arrays, cost and time, of size n representing the costs and the time taken to paint n different walls respectively. There are two painters available:

A paid painter that paints the ith wall in time[i] units of time and takes cost[i] units of money.
A free painter that paints any wall in 1 unit of time at a cost of 0. But the free painter can only be used if the paid painter is already occupied.

Return the minimum amount of money required to paint the n walls.

Example 1:

Input: cost = [1,2,3,2], time = [1,2,3,2]
Output: 3
Explanation: The walls at index 0 and 1 will be painted by the paid painter, and it will take 3 units of time; meanwhile, the free painter will paint the walls at index 2 and 3, free of cost in 2 units of time. Thus, the total cost is 1 + 2 = 3.

Example 2:

Input: cost = [2,3,4,2], time = [1,1,1,1]
Output: 4
Explanation: The walls at index 0 and 3 will be painted by the paid painter, and it will take 2 units of time; meanwhile, the free painter will paint the walls at index 1 and 2, free of cost in 2 units of time. Thus, the total cost is 2 + 2 = 4.

Constraints:

1 <= cost.length <= 500
cost.length == time.length
1 <= cost[i] <= 106
1 <= time[i] <= 500

Intuition

Approach:

Here, we maintain the state index, remaining walls

We track the remaining walls like this, at each stage if 
cost painter paints the wall,

We take remaining as 
remain-1(painted by cost one) - time[index](let say paid painter is 
painting for 3 units till this time free painter will paint )

hence remaining will be less

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Approach 1:

C++

class Solution {
public:
    vector<vector<int>> dp;
    int find_ans(vector<int>& cost, vector<int>& time, int index, int remain){
        if(remain <= 0)
            return 0;

        if(index == cost.size())
            return 1e9;
        
        if(dp[index][remain] != -1)
            return dp[index][remain];

        int paint = cost[index] + find_ans(cost, time, index+1, remain-1-time[index]);
        int dont_paint = find_ans(cost, time, index+1, remain);

        return dp[index][remain] = min(paint, dont_paint);
    }

    int paintWalls(vector<int>& cost, vector<int>& time) {
        int n = cost.size();
        dp = vector<vector<int>>(n, vector<int> (n+1, -1));
        return find_ans(cost, time, 0, n);
    }
};

Approach 2:

C++

Approach 3:

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Approach 4:

C++