Twitter Online Assessment (OA) 2021 | Partition Array
You have n
marbles in your collection. Some marbles in your collection are the same,
while other marbles are different. You have given each type of marble an ID. If two marbles
have the same ID, they are the same type, otherwise they are different.
You are feeling generous today and you want to gift these marbles to your friends. To make it fair for everyone, you want to follow these rules:
- Every marble you have must be gifted to exactly one friend.
- Everyone you have gifted must receive exactly
k
marbles. - No two marbles of the same type can be gifted to the same person.
There is an indefinite amount of friends to whom you can gift. As long as you follow the rules described above, you don't need to gift all your friends.
The question is: Is it possible to follow these rules and gift your marbles?
Parameter
marbles
: A list of integers indicating the marbles you have and their type.k
: An integer indicating the amount of marbles you gift to each person.
Result
- A boolean indicating whether you can follow the rules described above and gift out your marbles.
Examples
Example 1:
Input:
marbles = [1, 2, 3, 4]
k = 2
Output: true
Explanation: You can gift the first two marbles to your first friend and the last two marbles
to your other friend, so the answer is true
.
Example 2:
Input:
marbles = [1, 2, 2, 4]
k = 3
Output: false
Explanation: You cannot gift the marbles so that each of your friends has 3
marbles, so the
answer is false
.
Constraints
1 <= n <= 100000
1 <= k <= n
0 <= marbles[i] <= 10^9
for each0 <= i < n