Hello everyone,

As the title suggests, this is my first problem on Codeforces, and it's a medium to medium-hard challenge. I'm preparing this because I'm about to become my school's coach. If you have some time, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could take a look and provide me with some feedback.

Thank you! Love you all <3.

https://codeforces.net/contestInvitation/ccca44d49a984409344ede5f912629800ea6e003

P/S : I hate to say this as you've probably heard this a lot C:, but I apologize for my poor use of English in the problem statement. C:

Solution:

Hi guys, as the title stated, I really need some help with a problem (It appeared in my country's OI years ago). I remember it being a problem on Codeforces, the statement goes something like this:

Given N knowledges, numbered from 1 to N, each knowledge i has a cost of S[i] for you to be proficient in it. There are M tests, for each test from 1 to M, it gives you A[i] money, but it has a set of knowledges that require you to be proficient in all of it. Calculate the maximum benefit, if you learn knowledges optimally. For example,
N = 5
1 2 2 1 3
M = 4
A[1] = 2, knowledge requirements of 1 : (1,2)
A[2] = 5, knowledge requirements of 2 : (2,3)
A[3] = 1, knowledge requirements of 3 : (5)
A[4] = 1, knowledge requirements of 4 : (1)

The maximum benefit will be 3, since you learn knowledges (1,2,3) costs 1+2+2 = 5, and the tests 1,2,4 will give you 2+5+1 = 8 profit — cost = 8 — 5 = 3

Thanks for any help in advance!!!

In an undirected graph, we define that the cost of a path is the minimum value of AN EDGE that lies in the path. For example, there is a path like this: 1->2->4, and the weight of the edge between (1,2),(2,4) are 9 and 13 consecutively, so the cost of this path is 9. Consider the cost of two vertices (u,v), in every path that connects u and v, choose the path that has the highest cost, and that cost is the cost of (u,v).
For example, we have this graph:
https://ibb.co/tmg1xkN
The cost of 1 and 4 is 10, there are 2 paths, 1->2->4 (cost 10) and 1->3->4 (cost 5) so the cost is 10 Given an undirected graph, find the cost between 1 and all other vertices from 2 to N, with N <= 10^5, and the number of edges is smaller than 5.10^6

Can anyone please help me with this? What type of problem is this? Many thanks in advance!!! (Also, pardon me because of my bad English)

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