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# Pre-requisites

Basic programming language constructions

# Problem

Find the maximal value of the profit for playing a single-player game described in the problem statement

# How to get 20 points

Let's generate all permutations of the order of the questions and calculate the score for each of them. Among the scores for all the orders, choose the maximal. Then just output the maximal obtained score. Since there are exactly N! permutations of the set of N questions and a check of a single order takes O(N) time, the complexity of such a solution is O(N!*N).

In C++ you can use STL routine next_permutation for simple generation of all the permutations.

This solution solves the first subtask, however, it is too slow to get the full points.

# How to get 100 points

Let us calculate K - the number of the questions that would be answered correctly by Chef. Clearly, the ith question will be answered correctly if the ith sumbol in the first string equals to the ith symbol in the second string.

If K = N, there is no other option than Chef answers all the questions correctly and gets WN dollars of profit.

Otherwise, using any question than can be answered incorrectly, we can obtain any number of correct answers between 0 and K inclusively. Then the answer is, therefore, the maximal value of Wi for 0 ≤ i ≤ K.

The complexity of such a solution is O(N) for a single test case.

# Setter's Solution:

Can be found here

# Tester's Solution:

Can be found here

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asked 04 Oct '15, 04:11

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24 Answers:
 0 Whats wrong with this code? answered 12 Oct '15, 15:14 31●2 accept rate: 0% for (j=0; j<1001; j++) W[i]=0; The above line is wrong. make it, for (j=0; j<1001; j++) W[j]=0; This gives 100pts (12 Oct '15, 15:25) Thanks for pointing it out. Really feeling bad that I missed 80 points due to that! :( (12 Oct '15, 20:06)
 0 I too did the same thing here. But why still my code got WA? https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/8530210 answered 12 Oct '15, 15:21 2★thabraze 1 accept rate: 0% "If K = N, there is no other option than Chef answers all the questions correctly and gets WN dollars of profit." (12 Oct '15, 15:23) sandeep93★ You are not considering the case where all the answers are correct. Your modified code : https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/8530809 This gives AC (12 Oct '15, 15:30)
 0 can any body please tell me where my solution is failing answered 12 Oct '15, 18:08 12●1 accept rate: 0% @prasadram126 Please change long int to long long int and then try again. The constraints of the problem are such that they need a datatype as large as long long int. This is the link to your updated solution. https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/8535868 (13 Oct '15, 00:04) @raunak_parijat thanks for you help , i have one question, in the problem page value of wi at max 10^9 i have tested my code with 10^9 it's working fine .So can you please give me any test case where it's giving WA? (14 Oct '15, 10:55)
 0 please check what's wrong with this code my code answered 13 Oct '15, 01:08 1 accept rate: 0% @anuragkumar33 I think you need to make arrays A and B a little bit bigger (say, 1010), because string of length N needs N + 1 byte of memory (string itself plus '\0'). (13 Oct '15, 09:53) eartemov5★ @eartemov thanks a lot for the help (16 Oct '15, 09:01)
 0 can any one tell what's wrong with this code https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/8437975 answered 13 Oct '15, 19:08 1 accept rate: 0% If $cnt = n$, Chef answers all questions correctly and there is no other option than Chef gets $W_n$ dollars of profit, because he can't leave the game when he wants. For example, for test 3 ABC ABC 10 100 20 30 answer is 30, not 100. (13 Oct '15, 19:36) eartemov5★
 0 can any one tell what's wrong with this code? https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/8540459 answered 13 Oct '15, 21:09 1 accept rate: 0% And again, for test 3 ABC ABC 10 100 20 30 answer is 30, not 100. (13 Oct '15, 21:38) eartemov5★
 0 check this video editorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT6Pmmi9zBk answered 13 Oct '15, 21:20 2★ankit15 41●2 accept rate: 0%
 0 Can anybody tell why my program has not given complete 100 points. where my program lacks. https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/8450527 answered 13 Oct '15, 23:28 1 accept rate: 0%
 0 Can anyone tell me whats wrong in my code? https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/8542452 answered 14 Oct '15, 02:10 1★amitking 1 accept rate: 0%
 0 @amitking you get WA because of no newline character at end of each testcase output check this https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/8543127 answered 14 Oct '15, 09:23 226●2●9 accept rate: 9%
 0 What is the problem with this solution: https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/8587753 I tried running it this way: java Codechef< input.txt > output.txt and had the test case input in input.txt and it runs fine. answered 19 Oct '15, 17:56 0★ricsr 1 accept rate: 0%
 0 Hi every one cay any one please tell me whats wrong with this solution? After verifying with setter's solutions i modified my solution which is giving AC ,i got shocked because both solutions are same in perceptive of algorithms .The difference between two solutions are in the first one using one for loop i am checking no.of correct answers and taking input of w's , in the second solution i have separated the above logic into two different for loops , both are doing the same thing then why i got WA for first solution can one please tell me either reason or any test case where it's failling? answered 24 Oct '15, 15:52 12●1 accept rate: 0%
 0 Hi every one cay any one please tell me whats wrong with this solution? After verifying with setter's solutions i modified my solution which is giving AC ,i got shocked because both solutions are same in perceptive of algorithms .The difference between two solutions are in the first one using one for loop i am checking no.of correct answers and taking input of w's , in the second solution i have separated the above logic into two different for loops , both are doing the same thing then why i got WA for first solution can one please tell me either reason or any test case where it's failling? answered 24 Oct '15, 16:28 12●1 accept rate: 0%
 0 Can someone enlighten me as to why my code is not working? answered 14 Nov '15, 00:43 1 accept rate: 0%
 0 I keep on getting WA and SIGSEGV on this code. Can anyone please point out what I'm doing wrong? answered 12 Dec '15, 00:45 3★yash10p 21 accept rate: 0%
 0 WA and I don't know why!! https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/9015414 Anybody Help answered 25 Dec '15, 17:53 2★mk95825s 1 accept rate: 0%
 0 I am a bit new here and a little help would be greatly appreciated. I tried the below code on Turbo C++, and it worked but here it says wrong answer. Any ideas why that may be? https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/9246713 link This answer is marked "community wiki". answered 28 Jan '16, 02:07 0★knewbie 1 accept rate: 0%
 0 like everyone else: I can't get this to work on the submission. It works on the sample data and I've compared to some of the completed solutions and it looks equivalent to me but I still get a WA. https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/9281660 answered 02 Feb '16, 23:44 0★zarquad 1 accept rate: 0%
 0 Whats the problem in this code? I cant find it :( answered 18 May '16, 22:19 1 accept rate: 0%
 0 T=int(input()) for t in range(0,T): N=int(input()) ca=input() ga=input() count=0 winnings=[] win=list(map(int,input().split())) for i in range(0,len(ca)): if ca[i]==ga[i]: count=count+1 if count==0: print(win[0]) else: for i in range(1,count+1): winnings.append(win[i]) print(max(winnings)) link This answer is marked "community wiki". answered 18 May '16, 22:19 1 accept rate: 0%
 0 Whats the problem in this code? I cant find it :( answered 18 May '16, 22:19 1 accept rate: 0%
 0 can any tell whats wrong withthis code am getting correct answer in PC i gave the sample inputs getting same sample output but complilng in CodeChef showing wrong sir.please help me link This answer is marked "community wiki". answered 28 Jun '16, 22:52 1 accept rate: 0%
 0 Why goes it give a WA? I'm sure my solution is similar to what the editorial says. https://www.codechef.com/viewsolution/12383128 answered 01 Jan '17, 03:05 11●1 accept rate: 0%
 0 Whats wrong with my code https://ideone.com/0Jp7oi answered 07 Nov '18, 00:57 119●7 accept rate: 4%
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