LeetCode in Kotlin

2656. Maximum Sum With Exactly K Elements

Easy

You are given a 0-indexed integer array nums and an integer k. Your task is to perform the following operation exactly k times in order to maximize your score:

1. Select an element m from nums.
2. Remove the selected element m from the array.
3. Add a new element with a value of m + 1 to the array.
4. Increase your score by m.

Return the maximum score you can achieve after performing the operation exactly k times.

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,2,3,4,5], k = 3

Output: 18

Explanation: We need to choose exactly 3 elements from nums to maximize the sum.

For the first iteration, we choose 5. Then sum is 5 and nums = [1,2,3,4,6]

For the second iteration, we choose 6. Then sum is 5 + 6 and nums = [1,2,3,4,7]

For the third iteration, we choose 7. Then sum is 5 + 6 + 7 = 18 and nums = [1,2,3,4,8]

So, we will return 18. It can be proven, that 18 is the maximum answer that we can achieve.

Example 2:

Input: nums = [5,5,5], k = 2

Output: 11

Explanation: We need to choose exactly 2 elements from nums to maximize the sum.

For the first iteration, we choose 5. Then sum is 5 and nums = [5,5,6]

For the second iteration, we choose 6. Then sum is 5 + 6 = 11 and nums = [5,5,7]

So, we will return 11.

It can be proven, that 11 is the maximum answer that we can achieve.

Constraints:

• 1 <= nums.length <= 100
• 1 <= nums[i] <= 100
• 1 <= k <= 100

Solution

class Solution {
    fun maximizeSum(nums: IntArray, k: Int): Int {
        return k * nums.max() + k * (k - 1) / 2
    }
}

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