Candy Distribution
Compute the minimum total candies needed so that every child gets at least one and children with higher ratings than neighbors get more candies.
Meeting Rooms Minimum
Given a list of meeting time intervals, compute the minimum number of conference rooms required.
Boats to Save People
Given a list of people weights and a boat's weight limit, return the minimum number of boats required.
Bag of Tokens Score
Given tokens with values and initial power, determine the maximum score achievable by selling tokens for power or buying tokens for score.
Minimum Number of Arrows to Burst Balloons
Given balloon intervals, find the minimum number of arrows to burst all balloons by merging overlaps.
Painter Partition Problem
Given board lengths and k painters, find the minimum possible maximum total length a painter must paint.
Gas Station Circuit
Given gas and cost arrays for a circular route, determine the starting gas station index that allows a full loop, or -1 if none exists.
Jump Game Reachable
Given an array of non-negative integers where each element is the maximum jump length, determine if you can reach the last index.
Non-overlapping Intervals
Given a list of intervals, return the minimum number of intervals to remove to make the rest non-overlapping.
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