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By Noluck_167, history, 13 months ago, In English

Can someone please help me out with the solution of this problem "Natsya decided to visit a local store, which has n items. The i-th item has price a[i]

She has to buy k items out of the n items such that total price of all the items bought is minimum.

In how ways she can buy k items such that the overall price is minimum?"

1<=k<=n<=50 a[i]<=n

I have tried to solve it but it is failing in some hidden cases Code.

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first find out the frequency of each element in the store and store it in a map. also find the minimum cost. now you need to use simple permutation and combinations. suppose you had 4 items with price 2 and you are only buying 2 items , then you can doit in 4c2 ways