Code RoomBillboard revenue
MediumPrep Room Coding #688

Billboard revenue

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresEntry–Mid~14 min

A highway agency sells billboard slots along a road, listed in order with the expected revenue for each (all positive). Local rules say two rented billboards must have at least two empty slots between them — so if you take slot i, the next one you take must be at index i+3 or later. Given the revenues, return the maximum total you can earn. An empty list returns 0. For example, [8, 3, 2, 9] gives 17 by taking slots 0 and 3.

Implement
max_billboard_revenue(revenues: list[int]) → int
Examples
in[[8,3,2,9]]out17
in[[10,1,1,1,10]]out20
What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

0:00 of about 14 min
InputExpectedGot
[[8,3,2,9]]17not run yetsample
[[10,1,1,1,10]]20not run yetsample