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7 questions | 3 hard, 3 medium, 1 easy
Given an array nums of n integers where nums[i] is in the range [1, n], return an array of all the integers in the range [1, n] that do not appear in nums....
The score of an array is defined as the product of its sum and its length. - For example, the score of [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] is (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5) \* 5 = 75. Given a positive integer array nums and an integer k, return the number of non-empty subarrays of nums whose score is strictly less...
We have n jobs, where every job is scheduled to be done from startTime[i] to endTime[i], obtaining a profit of profit[i]. You're given the startTime, endTime and profit arrays, return the maximum profit you can take such that there are no two jobs in the subset with overlapping time ra...
You are given an array of transactions transactions where transactions[i] = [fromi, toi, amounti] indicates that the person with ID = fromi gave amounti $ to the person with ID = toi. Return the minimum number of transactions required to settle the debt....
There are n people in a social group labeled from 0 to n - 1. You are given an array logs where logs[i] = [timestampi, xi, yi] indicates that xi and yi will be friends at the time timestampi. Friendship is symmetric. That means if a is friends with b, then b is friends with a. Also, pe...
There is an undirected graph with n nodes, where each node is numbered between 0 and n - 1. You are given a 2D array graph, where graph[u] is an array of nodes that node u is adjacent to. More formally, for each v in graph[u], there is an undirected edge between node u and node v. The g...
We want to split a group of n people (labeled from 1 to n) into two groups of any size. Each person may dislike some other people, and they should not go into the same group. Given the integer n and the array dislikes where dislikes[i] = [ai, bi] indicates that the person labeled ai do...
2 questions | 2 medium
A subsequence of a string is a new string that is formed from the original string by deleting some (can be none) of the characters without disturbing the relative positions of the remaining characters. (i.e., "ace" is a subsequence of "abcde" while "aec" is not). Given two strings sour...
You are given an array of CPU tasks, each represented by letters A to Z, and a cooling time, n. Each cycle or interval allows the completion of one task. Tasks can be completed in any order, but there's a constraint: identical tasks must be separated by at least n intervals due to cooli...
3 questions | 1 hard, 2 medium
You are given an m x n integer matrix grid where each cell is either 0 (empty) or 1 (obstacle). You can move up, down, left, or right from and to an empty cell in one step. Return the minimum number of steps to walk from the upper left corner (0, 0) to the lower right corner (m - 1, n...
Given a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of n nodes labeled from 0 to n - 1, find all possible paths from node 0 to node n - 1 and return them in any order. The graph is given as follows: graph[i] is a list of all nodes you can visit from node i (i.e., there is a directed edge from node i...
Given an array of strings words representing an English Dictionary, return the longest word in words that can be built one character at a time by other words in words. If there is more than one possible answer, return the longest word with the smallest lexicographical order. If there i...
1 questions | 1 medium
You are starving and you want to eat food as quickly as possible. You want to find the shortest path to arrive at any food cell. You are given an m x n character matrix, grid, of these different types of cells: - '_' is your location. There is exactly one '_' cell. - '#' is a food cel...
4 questions | 4 medium
You are given an array of intervals, where intervals[i] = [starti, endi] and each starti is unique. The right interval for an interval i is an interval j such that startj >= endi and startj is minimized. Note that i may equal j. Return an array of right interval indices for each inter...
Given a string s, find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters....
## Question There are n cities labeled from 1 to n. You are given the integer n and an array connections where connections[i] = [xi, yi, costi] indicates that the cost of connecting city xi and city yi (bidirectional connection) is costi. Return the minimum cost to connect all the n cities such t...
In this problem, a tree is an undirected graph that is connected and has no cycles. You are given a graph that started as a tree with n nodes labeled from 1 to n, with one additional edge added. The added edge has two different vertices chosen from 1 to n, and was not an edge that alre...
3 questions | 1 medium, 2 easy
Given the root of a binary search tree and a target value, return the value in the BST that is closest to the target. If there are multiple answers, print the smallest....
There is a bi-directional graph with n vertices, where each vertex is labeled from 0 to n - 1 (inclusive). The edges in the graph are represented as a 2D integer array edges, where each edges[i] = [ui, vi] denotes a bi-directional edge between vertex ui and vertex vi. Every vertex pair...
You have a lock in front of you with 4 circular wheels. Each wheel has 10 slots: '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9'. The wheels can rotate freely and wrap around: for example we can turn '9' to be '0', or '0' to be '9'. Each move consists of turning one wheel one slot. Th...
2 questions | 2 easy
Given a 0-indexed integer array nums, find a 0-indexed integer array answer where: - answer.length == nums.length. - answer[i] = |leftSum[i] - rightSum[i]|. Where: - leftSum[i] is the sum of elements to the left of the index i in the array nums. If there is no such element, leftSum[i...
You are given a 2D integer array logs where each logs[i] = [birthi, deathi] indicates the birth and death years of the ith person. The population of some year x is the number of people alive during that year. The ith person is counted in year x's population if x is in the inclusive ran...
2 questions | 1 medium, 1 easy
Given an array of meeting time intervals where intervals[i] = [starti, endi], determine if a person could attend all meetings....
Given an array of meeting time intervals intervals where intervals[i] = [starti, endi], return the minimum number of conference rooms required....
5 questions | 1 hard, 3 medium, 1 easy
Given two non-negative integers low and high. Return the count of odd numbers between low and high (inclusive)....
Given an unsorted integer array nums. Return the smallest positive integer that is not present in nums. You must implement an algorithm that runs in O(n) time and uses O(1) auxiliary space....
Design a data structure that follows the constraints of a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement the LRUCache class: - LRUCache(int capacity) Initialize the LRU cache with positive size capacity. - int get(int key) Return the value of the key if the key exists, otherwise return -1...
Given an array of intervals where intervals[i] = [starti, endi], merge all overlapping intervals, and return an array of the non-overlapping intervals that cover all the intervals in the input....
# You are given an integer n, which indicates that there are n courses labeled from 1 to n. You are also given an array relations where relations[i] = [prevCoursei, nextCoursei], representing a prerequisite relationship between course prevCoursei and course nextCoursei: course prevCourse...
3 questions | 2 medium, 1 easy
Given an integer x, return true if x is a palindrome , and false otherwise....
There is an integer array nums sorted in ascending order (with distinct values). Prior to being passed to your function, nums is possibly rotated at an unknown pivot index k (1 <= k < nums.length) such that the resulting array is [nums[k], nums[k+1], ..., nums[n-1], nums[0], nums[1], ....
Given a linked list, swap every two adjacent nodes and return its head. You must solve the problem without modifying the values in the list's nodes (i.e., only nodes themselves may be changed.)...
6 questions | 1 medium, 5 easy
Given an array nums, return true if the array was originally sorted in non-decreasing order, then rotated some number of positions (including zero). Otherwise, return false. There may be duplicates in the original array. Note: An array A rotated by x positions results in an array B of...
A school is trying to take an annual photo of all the students. The students are asked to stand in a single file line in non-decreasing order by height. Let this ordering be represented by the integer array expected where expected[i] is the expected height of the ith student in line. Y...
Given two strings s and goal, return true if and only if s can become goal after some number of shifts on s. A shift on s consists of moving the leftmost character of s to the rightmost position. - For example, if s = "abcde", then it will be "bcdea" after one shift....
Given a sorted array of distinct integers and a target value, return the index if the target is found. If not, return the index where it would be if it were inserted in order. You must write an algorithm with O(log n) runtime complexity....
You are given two integer arrays of equal length target and arr. In one step, you can select any non-empty subarray of arr and reverse it. You are allowed to make any number of steps. Return true if you can make arr equal to target or false otherwise....
Given an integer array nums, return true if there exists a triple of indices (i, j, k) such that i < j < k and nums[i] < nums[j] < nums[k]. If no such indices exists, return false....
4 questions | 4 easy
Given an integer array nums and an integer k, return true if there are two distinct indices i and j in the array such that nums[i] == nums[j] and abs(i - j) <= k....
Design a logger system that receives a stream of messages along with their timestamps. Each unique message should only be printed at most every 10 seconds (i.e. a message printed at timestamp t will prevent other identical messages from being printed until timestamp t + 10). All messag...
We define a harmonious array as an array where the difference between its maximum value and its minimum value is exactly 1. Given an integer array nums, return the length of its longest harmonious subsequence among all its possible subsequences. A subsequence of array is a sequence th...
You are given an integer array nums consisting of n elements, and an integer k. Find a contiguous subarray whose length is equal to k that has the maximum average value and return this value. Any answer with a calculation error less than 10-5 will be accepted....
1 questions | 1 medium
Given an array of strings strs, group the anagrams together. You can return the answer in any order. An Anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once....
5 questions | 1 hard, 4 medium
Write a program to solve a Sudoku puzzle by filling the empty cells. A sudoku solution must satisfy all of the following rules: - Each of the digits 1-9 must occur exactly once in each row. - Each of the digits 1-9 must occur exactly once in each column. - Each of the digits 1-9 must...
Given an integer array nums, return all the triplets [nums[i], nums[j], nums[k]] such that i != j, i != k, and j != k, and nums[i] + nums[j] + nums[k] == 0. Notice that the solution set must not contain duplicate triplets....
Given a collection of candidate numbers (candidates) and a target number (target), find all unique combinations in candidates where the candidate numbers sum to target. Each number in candidates may only be used once in the combination. Note: The solution set must not contain duplicat...
Given an m x n integer matrix matrix, if an element is 0, set its entire row and column to 0's. You must do it in place....
Given a 1-indexed array of integers numbers that is already sorted in non-decreasing order, find two numbers such that they add up to a specific target number. Let these two numbers be numbers[index1] and numbers[index2] where 1 <= index1 < index2 <= numbers.length. Return the indices...
1 questions | 1 medium
Given a string containing digits from 2-9 inclusive, return all possible letter combinations that the number could represent. Return the answer in any order. A mapping of digits to letters (just like on the telephone buttons) is given below. Note that 1 does not map to any letters. Ex...
1 questions | 1 hard
Given a string num that contains only digits and an integer target, return all possibilities to insert the binary operators '+', '-', and/or '\*' between the digits of num so that the resultant expression evaluates to the target value. Note that operands in the returned expressions sho...
9 questions | 6 medium, 3 easy
Given the root of a binary tree, return all root-to-leaf paths in any order. A leaf is a node with no children....
A binary watch has 4 LEDs on the top to represent the hours (0-11), and 6 LEDs on the bottom to represent the minutes (0-59). Each LED represents a zero or one, with the least significant bit on the right. - For example, the below binary watch reads "4:51". Given an integer turnedOn w...
The XOR total of an array is defined as the bitwise XOR of all its elements, or 0 if the array is empty. - For example, the XOR total of the array [2,5,6] is 2 XOR 5 XOR 6 = 1. Given an array nums, return the sum of all XOR totals for every subset of nums. Note: Subsets with the same...
Given an array of distinct integers candidates and a target integer target, return a list of all unique combinations of candidates where the chosen numbers sum to target. You may return the combinations in any order. The same number may be chosen from candidates an unlimited number of...
Given two integers n and k, return all possible combinations of k numbers chosen from the range [1, n]. You may return the answer in any order....
Given n pairs of parentheses, write a function to generate all combinations of well-formed parentheses....
Given two strings s and t, return true if they are both one edit distance apart, otherwise return false. A string s is said to be one distance apart from a string t if you can: - Insert exactly one character into s to get t. - Delete exactly one character from s to get t. - Replace ex...
Given an integer array nums of unique elements, return all possible subsets (the power set). The solution set must not contain duplicate subsets. Return the solution in any order....
You are given an integer array nums and an integer target. You want to build an expression out of nums by adding one of the symbols '+' and '-' before each integer in nums and then concatenate all the integers. - For example, if nums = [2, 1], you can add a '+' before 2 and a '-' befo...
8 questions | 1 hard, 7 medium
You are given an array of k linked-lists lists, each linked-list is sorted in ascending order. Merge all the linked-lists into one sorted linked-list and return it....
There are a total of numCourses courses you have to take, labeled from 0 to numCourses - 1. You are given an array prerequisites where prerequisites[i] = [ai, bi] indicates that you must take course bi first if you want to take course ai. - For example, the pair [0, 1], indicates that...
There are a total of numCourses courses you have to take, labeled from 0 to numCourses - 1. You are given an array prerequisites where prerequisites[i] = [ai, bi] indicates that you must take course bi first if you want to take course ai. - For example, the pair [0, 1], indicates that...
Given an array of integers nums containing n + 1 integers where each integer is in the range [1, n] inclusive. There is only one repeated number in nums, return this repeated number. You must solve the problem without modifying the array nums and uses only constant extra space. Examp...
Given the head of a linked list, return the node where the cycle begins. If there is no cycle, return null. There is a cycle in a linked list if there is some node in the list that can be reached again by continuously following the next pointer. Internally, pos is used to denote the in...
Given an array nums of distinct integers, return all the possible permutations. You can return the answer in any order....
Given an n x n binary matrix grid, return the length of the shortest clear path in the matrix. If there is no clear path, return -1. A clear path in a binary matrix is a path from the top-left cell (i.e., (0, 0)) to the bottom-right cell (i.e., (n - 1, n - 1)) such that: - All the vis...
Given an integer array nums and an integer k, return the k most frequent elements. You may return the answer in any order....
4 questions | 1 hard, 1 medium, 2 easy
Given two strings s and t, return true if s is a subsequence of t, or false otherwise. A subsequence of a string is a new string that is formed from the original string by deleting some (can be none) of the characters without disturbing the relative positions of the remaining character...
Given the head of a singly linked list, return the middle node of the linked list. If there are two middle nodes, return the second middle node....
The median is the middle value in an ordered integer list. If the size of the list is even, there is no middle value, and the median is the mean of the two middle values. - For example, for arr = [2,3,4], the median is 3. - For example, for arr = [2,3], the median is (2 + 3) / 2 = 2.5....
The count-and-say sequence is a sequence of digit strings defined by the recursive formula: - countAndSay(1) = "1" - countAndSay(n) is the run-length encoding of countAndSay(n - 1). Run-length encoding (RLE) is a string compression method that works by replacing consecutive identical...
1 questions | 1 medium
Given a string s, rearrange the characters of s so that any two adjacent characters are not the same. Return any possible rearrangement of s or return "" if not possible....
8 questions | 8 easy
Given an integer n, return the number of prime numbers that are strictly less than n....
Given an integer n, return a string array answer (1-indexed) where: - answer[i] == "FizzBuzz" if i is divisible by 3 and 5. - answer[i] == "Fizz" if i is divisible by 3. - answer[i] == "Buzz" if i is divisible by 5. - answer[i] == i (as a string) if none of the above conditions are tru...
Given the root of a binary tree, invert the tree, and return its root....
Design a stack that supports push, pop, top, and retrieving the minimum element in constant time. Implement the MinStack class: - MinStack() initializes the stack object. - void push(int val) pushes the element val onto the stack. - void pop() removes the element on the top of the sta...
Given an array nums containing n distinct numbers in the range [0, n], return the only number in the range that is missing from the array....
Given an integer n, return true if it is a power of three. Otherwise, return false. An integer n is a power of three, if there exists an integer x such that n == 3x....
Given an integer array nums, design an algorithm to randomly shuffle the array. All permutations of the array should be equally likely as a result of the shuffling. Implement the Solution class: - Solution(int[] nums) Initializes the object with the integer array nums. - int[] reset()...
Given a string s containing just the characters '(', ')', '{', '}', '[' and ']', determine if the input string is valid. An input string is valid if: - Open brackets must be closed by the same type of brackets. - Open brackets must be closed in the correct order. - Every close bracket...
5 questions | 5 easy
You are given an array prices where prices[i] is the price of a given stock on the ith day. You want to maximize your profit by choosing a single day to buy one stock and choosing a different day in the future to sell that stock. Return the maximum profit you can achieve from this tra...
You are climbing a staircase. It takes n steps to reach the top. Each time you can either climb 1 or 2 steps. In how many distinct ways can you climb to the top?...
You are a professional robber planning to rob houses along a street. Each house has a certain amount of money stashed, the only constraint stopping you from robbing each of them is that adjacent houses have security systems connected and it will automatically contact the police if two a...
Given an integer array nums, find the subarray with the largest sum, and return its sum....
You are given two integer arrays nums1 and nums2, sorted in non-decreasing order, and two integers m and n, representing the number of elements in nums1 and nums2 respectively. Merge nums1 and nums2 into a single array sorted in non-decreasing order. The final sorted array should not...
1 questions | 1 easy
You are a product manager and currently leading a team to develop a new product. Unfortunately, the latest version of your product fails the quality check. Since each version is developed based on the previous version, all the versions after a bad version are also bad. Suppose you have...
2 questions | 2 easy
Given the root of a binary tree, return the level order traversal of its nodes' values. (i.e., from left to right, level by level)....
Given an integer array nums where the elements are sorted in ascending order, convert it to a height-balanced binary search tree....
5 questions | 5 easy
Given head, the head of a linked list, determine if the linked list has a cycle in it. There is a cycle in a linked list if there is some node in the list that can be reached again by continuously following the next pointer. Internally, pos is used to denote the index of the node that...
Given the root of a binary tree, return its maximum depth. A binary tree's maximum depth is the number of nodes along the longest path from the root node down to the farthest leaf node....
Given the head of a singly linked list, return true if it is a palindrome or false otherwise....
Given the root of a binary tree, check whether it is a mirror of itself (i.e., symmetric around its center)....
Given the root of a binary tree, determine if it is a valid binary search tree (BST). A valid BST is defined as follows: - The left subtree of a node contains only nodes with keys less than the node's key. - The right subtree of a node contains only nodes with keys greater than the no...
3 questions | 3 easy
You are given the heads of two sorted linked lists list1 and list2. Merge the two lists into one sorted list. The list should be made by splicing together the nodes of the first two lists. Return the head of the merged linked list....
Given the head of a linked list, remove the nth node from the end of the list and return its head....
Given the head of a singly linked list, reverse the list, and return the reversed list....
9 questions | 9 easy
Implement the myAtoi(string s) function, which converts a string to a 32-bit signed integer. The algorithm for myAtoi(string s) is as follows: Whitespace: Ignore any leading whitespace (" "). Signedness: Determine the sign by checking if the next character is '-' or '+', assuming posi...
There is a singly-linked list head and we want to delete a node node in it. You are given the node to be deleted node. You will not be given access to the first node of head. All the values of the linked list are unique, and it is guaranteed that the given node node is not the last no...
Given a string s, find the first non-repeating character in it and return its index. If it does not exist, return -1....
Write a function to find the longest common prefix string amongst an array of strings. If there is no common prefix, return an empty string ""....
Given a signed 32-bit integer x, return x with its digits reversed. If reversing x causes the value to go outside the signed 32-bit integer range [-2^31, 2^31 - 1], then return 0. Assume the environment does not allow you to store 64-bit integers (signed or unsigned)....
Write a function that reverses a string. The input string is given as an array of characters s. You must do this by modifying the input array in-place with O(1) extra memory....
Given two strings needle and haystack, return the index of the first occurrence of needle in haystack, or -1 if needle is not part of haystack....
Given two strings s and t, return true if t is an anagram of s, and false otherwise. An Anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once....
A phrase is a palindrome if, after converting all uppercase letters into lowercase letters and removing all non-alphanumeric characters, it reads the same forward and backward. Alphanumeric characters include letters and numbers. Given a string s, return true if it is a palindrome, or...
1 questions | 1 easy
Determine if a 9 x 9 Sudoku board is valid. Only the filled cells need to be validated according to the following rules: - Each row must contain the digits 1-9 without repetition. - Each column must contain the digits 1-9 without repetition. - Each of the nine 3 x 3 sub-boxes of the gr...
5 questions | 5 easy
Given two integer arrays nums1 and nums2, return an array of their intersection. Each element in the result must appear as many times as it shows in both arrays and you may return the result in any order....
Given an integer array nums, move all 0's to the end of it while maintaining the relative order of the non-zero elements. Note that you must do this in-place without making a copy of the array....
You are given a large integer represented as an integer array digits, where each digits[i] is the ith digit of the integer. The digits are ordered from most significant to least significant in left-to-right order. The large integer does not contain any leading 0's. Increment the large...
Given an integer array nums sorted in non-decreasing order, remove the duplicates in-place such that each unique element appears only once. The relative order of the elements should be kept the same. Then return the number of unique elements in nums. Consider the number of unique eleme...
Given an array of integers nums and an integer target, return indices of the two numbers such that they add up to target. You may assume that each input would have exactly one solution, and you may not use the same element twice. You can return the answer in any order....
1 questions | 1 easy
Given a non-empty array of integers nums, every element appears twice except for one. Find that single one. You must implement a solution with a linear runtime complexity and use only constant extra space....
3 questions | 3 easy
You are given an integer array prices where prices[i] is the price of a given stock on the ith day. On each day, you may decide to buy and/or sell the stock. You can only hold at most one share of the stock at any time. However, you can buy it then immediately sell it on the same day....
Given an integer array nums, return true if any value appears at least twice in the array, and return false if every element is distinct....
Given an integer array nums, rotate the array to the right by k steps, where k is non-negative....