Minimum Operations Required (2025 Intern)
A shop in HackerLand contains n items where the price of the jth item is price[j]. In one operation, the price of any one item can be increased or decreased by 1.
Given q queries denoted by the array query[], find the minimum number of operations required to make the price of all items equal to each query[i] (0 ≤ i < q).
Note: All queries are independent of each other, i.e., the original price of items is restored after the completion of each query.
Complete the function minimumOperationsRequired in the editor.
minimumOperationsRequired has the following parameters:
- 1.
int[] price: an array of integers representing the prices of items - 2.
int[] query: an array of integers representing the queries
Returns
int[]: an array of integers where the ith integer is the minimum number of operations required for the ith query
1Example 1
Consider n = 3, q = 4, price[] = [1, 2, 3], query[] = [3, 2, 1, 5]
- query[0] = 3. The number of operations required = [2, 1, 0] to make the price of all elements equal to 3. Total number of operations = 2 + 1 + 0 = 3.
- query[1] = 2, operations required = [1, 0, 1] 1 + 0 + 1 = 2
- query[2] = 1, operations required = [0, 1, 2] 0 + 1 + 2 = 3
- query[3] = 5, operations required = [4, 3, 2] 4 + 3 + 2 = 9
The answer is [3, 2, 3, 9].
Constraints
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