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Maximum Profit in Job Scheduling

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Problem statement

You are given equal-length arrays startTime, endTime, and profit. Job i runs on the half-open interval from its start time to its end time and earns its profit.

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Example 1

startTime = [1,2,3,3]endTime = [3,4,5,6]profit = [50,10,40,70]return = 120

Choose jobs [1,3) and [3,6) for profit 120.

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