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Section 1Understand Problem
Section 01
Understand the problem
Restate the problem precisely. Interviewers reward candidates who pause, define the contract, and name the guarantees before coding.
Problem statement
There is a row of `n` houses; each house can be painted with one of `k` colors. The cost of painting each house with each color is given by an `n x k` matrix. No two adjacent houses may share a color. Return the minimum cost to paint all houses.
Example
costs = [[1,5,3],[2,9,4]] → 5
Constraints
0 ≤ n ≤ 100 · 1 ≤ k ≤ 20 · 0 ≤ costs[i][k] ≤ 20
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