Code RoomCheapest flight with stops
MediumPrep Room Coding #821

Cheapest flight with stops

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresMid–Senior~30 min

There are n cities (0..n-1) and a list of one-way flights [u, v, w] with positive price w. Find the cheapest price to travel from a source city to a destination city using at most k intermediate stops (so at most k+1 flights). Return the cheapest total price, or -1 if it is unreachable within the stop limit. If source equals destination the price is 0. Constraints: 1 <= n <= 200; 0 <= k <= n.

Implement
cheapest_k_stops(n: int, flights: list[list[int]], src: int, dst: int, k: int) → int
Examples
in[3,[[0,1,100],[1,2,100],[0,2,500]],0,2,1]out200
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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.

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InputExpectedGot
[3,[[0,1,100],[1,2,100],[0,2,500]],0,2,1]200not run yetsample