2025-12-24 Daily Challenge

Today I have done leetcode's December LeetCoding Challenge with cpp.

December LeetCoding Challenge 24

Description

Apple Redistribution into Boxes

You are given an array apple of size n and an array capacity of size m.

There are n packs where the ith pack contains apple[i] apples. There are m boxes as well, and the ith box has a capacity of capacity[i] apples.

Return the minimum number of boxes you need to select to redistribute these n packs of apples into boxes.

Note that, apples from the same pack can be distributed into different boxes.

 

Example 1:

Input: apple = [1,3,2], capacity = [4,3,1,5,2]
Output: 2
Explanation: We will use boxes with capacities 4 and 5.
It is possible to distribute the apples as the total capacity is greater than or equal to the total number of apples.

Example 2:

Input: apple = [5,5,5], capacity = [2,4,2,7]
Output: 4
Explanation: We will need to use all the boxes.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= n == apple.length <= 50
  • 1 <= m == capacity.length <= 50
  • 1 <= apple[i], capacity[i] <= 50
  • The input is generated such that it's possible to redistribute packs of apples into boxes.

Solution

class Solution {
public:
  int minimumBoxes(vector<int>& apple, vector<int>& capacity) {
    int sum = accumulate(apple.begin(), apple.end(), 0);
    sort(capacity.begin(), capacity.end(), greater<int>());
    int pos = 0;
    while(sum > 0) {
      sum -= capacity[pos];
      pos += 1;
    }
    return pos;
  }
};

// Accepted
// 565/565 cases passed (0 ms)
// Your runtime beats 100 % of cpp submissions
// Your memory usage beats 46.29 % of cpp submissions (33.2 MB)