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Minimum Cost to travel in a Grid
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1Give yourself 5 minutes
2Answer out loud, not in your head
3Then compare with the answer below
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Stuck? Show a way to structure it+
- 01Clarify allowed moves and what incurs cost
- 02Model each cell as a graph node
- 03Use DP only for acyclic right/down movement
- 04Use Dijkstra for nonnegative cyclic movement
- 05Handle start-cell cost and unreachable cells explicitly
Reference answer
Then expect these follow-ups
When is 0-1 BFS preferable to Dijkstra?
Tests: follow-up reasoning
How would you reconstruct the cheapest path?
Tests: implementation extension
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