983. Minimum Cost For Tickets
https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-cost-for-tickets/
In a country popular for train travel, you have planned some train travelling one year in advance. The days of the year that you will travel is given as an array
days
. Each day is an integer from 1
to 365
.
Train tickets are sold in 3 different ways:
- a 1-day pass is sold for
costs[0]
dollars; - a 7-day pass is sold for
costs[1]
dollars; - a 30-day pass is sold for
costs[2]
dollars.
The passes allow that many days of consecutive travel. For example, if we get a 7-day pass on day 2, then we can travel for 7 days: day 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.
Return the minimum number of dollars you need to travel every day in the given list of
days
.
Example 1:
Input: days = [1,4,6,7,8,20], costs = [2,7,15] Output: 11 Explanation: For example, here is one way to buy passes that lets you travel your travel plan: On day 1, you bought a 1-day pass for costs[0] = $2, which covered day 1. On day 3, you bought a 7-day pass for costs[1] = $7, which covered days 3, 4, ..., 9. On day 20, you bought a 1-day pass for costs[0] = $2, which covered day 20. In total you spent $11 and covered all the days of your travel.
Example 2:
Input: days = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,30,31], costs = [2,7,15] Output: 17 Explanation: For example, here is one way to buy passes that lets you travel your travel plan: On day 1, you bought a 30-day pass for costs[2] = $15 which covered days 1, 2, ..., 30. On day 31, you bought a 1-day pass for costs[0] = $2 which covered day 31. In total you spent $17 and covered all the days of your travel.
Note:
1 <= days.length <= 365
1 <= days[i] <= 365
days
is in strictly increasing order.costs.length == 3
1 <= costs[i] <= 1000
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Intuition
On each day we have three choices - day 1 pass, day 7 pass, day 30 pass
Cost for that day is minimum of the three costs
minCost(day) = min ( minCost(day + 1) + cost for day 1, minCost(day + 7) + cost for day 7, minCost(day + 30) + cost for day 30)
Some of these function calls are repeated so memoize them
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