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2462. Total Cost to Hire K Workers

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You are given a 0-indexed integer array costs where costs[i] is the cost of hiring the ith worker. You are also given two integers k and candidates. We want to hire exactly k workers according to the following rules: - You will run k sessions and hire exactly one worker in each session. - In each hiring session, choose the worker with the lowest cost from either the first candidates workers or

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