HackerEarth Equal elements problem solution

YASH PAL, 31 July 202413 February 2026

In this HackerEarth Equal elements, problem-solution you are given an integer array A consisting of N elements. You can perform the following operations on array A:

Choose any element and increase or decrease it by 3 for 1 coin.
Choose any element and increase or decrease it by 2 for free.

You are required to spend the minimum number of coins in order to make all the elements in array A equal.

HackerEarth Equal elements problem solution

HackerEarth Equal elements problem solution.

#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
#define FIO ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);cin.tie(0);cout.tie(0)
#define mod 1000000007
#define endl "n"
#define test ll txtc; cin>>txtc; while(txtc--)
typedef long long int ll;
typedef long double ld;
int main() {
    FIO;
    test
    {
      ll n; cin>>n;
      vector<ll>a(n);
      ll odd=0;
      for(int i=0;i<n;i++){
          cin>>a[i];
          odd+=(a[i]&1);
      }
      ll ans=min(odd,n-odd);
      cout<<ans<<endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

Second solution

t = int(input())
while t > 0:
    t -= 1
    n = int(input())
    a = list(map(int, input().split()))
    print(min(sum(x % 2 == i for x in a) for i in range(2)))

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