[LeetCode] Minimum Number of Moves to Seat Everyone

2037. Minimum Number of Moves to Seat Everyone

There are n seats and n students in a room. You are given an array seats of length n, where seats[i] is the position of the ith seat. You are also given the array students of length n, where students[j] is the position of the jth student.

You may perform the following move any number of times:

  • Increase or decrease the position of the ith student by 1 (i.e., moving the ith student from position x to x + 1 or x - 1)

Return the minimum number of moves required to move each student to a seat such that no two students are in the same seat.

Note that there may be multiple seats or students in the same position at the beginning.

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class Solution {
public:
int minMovesToSeat(vector<int>& A, vector<int>& B) {
sort(begin(A), end(A));
sort(begin(B), end(B));
int res = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < A.size(); i++) {
res += abs(A[i] - B[i]);
}
return res;
}
};
Author: Song Hayoung
Link: https://songhayoung.github.io/2024/06/13/PS/LeetCode/minimum-number-of-moves-to-seat-everyone/
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