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FARIDA - Princess Farida |
Once upon time there was a cute princess called Farida living in a castle with her father, mother and uncle. On the way to the castle there lived many monsters. Each one of them had some gold coins. Although they are monsters they will not hurt. Instead they will give you the gold coins, but if and only if you didn't take any coins from the monster directly before the current one. To marry princess Farida you have to pass all the monsters and collect as many coins as possible. Given the number of gold coins each monster has, calculate the maximum number of coins you can collect on your way to the castle.
Input
The first line of input contains the number of test cases. Each test case starts with a number N, the number of monsters, 0 <= N <= 10^4. The next line will have N numbers, number of coins each monster has, 0 <= The number of coins with each monster <= 10^9. Monsters described in the order they are encountered on the way to the castle.
Output
For each test case print “Case C: X” without quotes. C is the case number, starting with 1. X is the maximum number of coins you can collect.
Example
Input: 2 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 10 Output: Case 1: 9 Case 2: 10
Added by: | hossamyosef |
Date: | 2013-05-13 |
Time limit: | 1.237s |
Source limit: | 50000B |
Memory limit: | 1536MB |
Cluster: | Cube (Intel G860) |
Languages: | All except: ASM64 |
Resource: | FCIS/ASU Local Contest 2013 |
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2019-01-20 16:14:56
AC in one go!! |
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2018-11-08 09:21:20 abhu
N can be 0, handle that :) |
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2018-10-14 08:42:41 mohamed mokhtar
mayank_75, consider the case : 4 10 5 2 1000 if you summed up odds then 10 + 2 = 12 if you summed up evens then 5 +1000 = 1005 whilst you can take 10 then ignore 2 and take 1000 -> 10 + 1000 = 1010 Last edit: 2018-10-14 08:43:25 |
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2018-09-12 02:09:26
@mayank_75 While taking only even or odd indices will ensure we visit the maximum number of monsters, it doesn’t guarantee maximum value gathered. This is the same as the classic DP problem House Robber. Explanation here: https://codesignal.com/houserobber-solution/ |
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2018-09-03 15:47:35
can somebody tell me how is this a dp problem, why cant we use simply array and count the sum of odd indices and even indices and then take the max of the two sums? Am i missing something, please let me know? Thanks in advance! |
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2018-08-02 16:49:21 Malay Kumar Singh
My GO code is TLE no matter what I do, any suggestions? |
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2018-08-02 14:12:34
Remember long (or even long long to be safe). |
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2018-07-19 12:06:59
ac in one go!!! |
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2018-07-09 21:21:16
ac |
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2018-06-23 16:43:21
Nice DP problem. Number of monsters could be zero, costed me two WAs. |