#1063Medium#54 in Apple's list· asked at 19 companies
Maximum Points You Can Obtain from Cards
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What we know
Example 1
Input: cardPoints = [1,2,3,4,5,6,1], k = 3 Output: 12
Take the three rightmost cards 1, 6 and 5 for a total of 12.
Example 2
Input: cardPoints = [2,2,2], k = 2 Output: 4
Example 3
Input: cardPoints = [9,7,7,9,7,7,9], k = 7 Output: 55
Constraints
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1 <= cardPoints.length <= 10^5 - •
1 <= cardPoints[i] <= 10^4 - •
1 <= k <= cardPoints.length