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2073. Time Needed to Buy Tickets

2073. Time Needed to Buy Tickets

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There are n people in a line queuing to buy tickets, where the 0th person is at the front of the line and the (n - 1)th person is at the back of the line.

You are given a 0-indexed integer array tickets of length n where the number of tickets that the ith person would like to buy is tickets[i].

Each person takes exactly 1 second to buy a ticket. A person can only buy 1 ticket at a time and has to go back to the end of the line (which happens instantaneously) in order to buy more tickets. If a person does not have any tickets left to buy, the person will leave the line.

Return the time taken for the person at position k (0-indexed) to finish buying tickets.

Example 1:

  • Input: tickets = [2,3,2], k = 2
  • Output: 6
  • Explanation:
    • In the first pass, everyone in the line buys a ticket and the line becomes [1, 2, 1].
    • In the second pass, everyone in the line buys a ticket and the line becomes [0, 1, 0]. The person at position 2 has successfully bought 2 tickets and it took 3 + 3 = 6 seconds.

Example 2:

  • Input: tickets = [5,1,1,1], k = 0
  • Output: 8
  • Explanation:
    • In the first pass, everyone in the line buys a ticket and the line becomes [4, 0, 0, 0].
    • In the next 4 passes, only the person in position 0 is buying tickets. The person at position 0 has successfully bought 5 tickets and it took 4 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 8 seconds.

Constraints:

  • n == tickets.length
  • 1 <= n <= 100
  • 1 <= tickets[i] <= 100
  • 0 <= k < n

Solution:

class Solution {

    /**
     * @param Integer[] $tickets
     * @param Integer $k
     * @return Integer
     */
    function timeRequiredToBuy($tickets, $k) {
        $ans = 0;

        foreach ($tickets as $i => $ticket) {
            if ($i <= $k) {
                $ans += min($ticket, $tickets[$k]);
            } else {
                $ans += min($ticket, $tickets[$k] - 1);
            }
        }

        return $ans;
    }
}
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