Minimum Operations to Make All Array Elements Equal

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Problem Statement

You are given an array nums consisting of positive integers.

You are also given an integer array queries of size m . For the i ^th query, you want to make all of the elements of nums equal to queries[i] . You can perform the following operation on the array any number of times:

Increase or decrease an element of the array by 1 .

Return an array answer of size m where answer[i] is the minimum number of operations to make all elements of nums equal to queries[i] .

Note that after each query the array is reset to its original state.

Examples

Example 1

Input: nums = [3,1,6,8], queries = [1,5]
Output: [14,10]
For the first query we can do the following operations:
- Decrease nums[0] 2 times, so that nums = [1,1,6,8].
- Decrease nums[2] 5 times, so that nums = [1,1,1,8].
- Decrease nums[3] 7 times, so that nums = [1,1,1,1].
So the total number of operations for the first query is 2 + 5 + 7 = 14.
For the second query we can do the following operations:
- Increase nums[0] 2 times, so that nums = [5,1,6,8].
- Increase nums[1] 4 times, so that nums = [5,5,6,8].
- Decrease nums[2] 1 time, so that nums = [5,5,5,8].
- Decrease nums[3] 3 times, so that nums = [5,5,5,5].
So the total number of operations for the second query is 2 + 4 + 1 + 3 = 10.

Example 2

Input: nums = [2,9,6,3], queries = [10]
Output: [20]
We can increase each value in the array to 10. The total number of operations will be 8 + 1 + 4 + 7 = 20.

Constraints

n == nums.length

m == queries.length

1 <= n, m <= 10 ^5

1 <= nums[i], queries[i] <= 10 ^9

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Topic Info

ModuleDSA

CategoryArray

Sub-topicBinary Search