Assign Cookies - Greedy - Easy - LeetCode
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Assign Cookies - Greedy - Easy - LeetCode

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  • 1The problem involves assigning cookies to children based on their greed factors to maximize contentment.
  • 2Each child can only receive one cookie, and a cookie must meet or exceed the child's greed factor.
  • 3The solution utilizes sorting and a greedy algorithm to efficiently determine the maximum number of content children.

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"The problem involves assigning cookies to children based on their greed factors to maximize contentment."

Assign Cookies - Greedy - Easy - LeetCode

Assume you are an awesome parent and want to give your children some cookies. But, you should give each child at most one cookie. Each child i has a greed factor gi, which is the minimum size of a cookie that the child will be content with; and each cookie j has a size sj. If sj >= gi, we can assign the cookie j to the child i, and the child i will be content. Your goal is to maximize the number of your content children and output the maximum number.

Note: You may assume the greed factor is always positive. You cannot assign more than one cookie to one child.

Example 1: Input: [1,2,3], [1,1]

Output: 1

Explanation: You have 3 children and 2 cookies. The greed factors of 3 children are 1, 2, 3. And even though you have 2 cookies, since their size is both 1, you could only make the child whose greed factor is 1 content. You need to output 1. Example 2: Input: [1,2], [1,2,3]

Output: 2

Explanation: You have 2 children and 3 cookies. The greed factors of 2 children are 1, 2. You have 3 cookies and their sizes are big enough to gratify all of the children, You need to output 2.

public class Solution {
 public int FindContentChildren(int[] g, int[] s) {
 Array.Sort(g);
 Array.Sort(s);
 int count = 0;
 for(int i=0, j=0;i<g.Length && j<s.Length;){
 if(g[i]<=s[j]){
 count++;
 i++;
 j++;
 }
 else{
 j++;
 }
 }
 
 return count;
 }
}

Time Complexity: O(nlogn) : for sorting

Space Complexity: O(1)

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Published on 5 October 2020 · 1 min read · 256 words

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