title: Minimum Cost Make Array Size 1 Removing Larger Pairs
signature: class Solution {
  
      public int MinimumCostMakeArraySize1RemovingLargerPairs(List<int> a, int n) {
test_code: using System;
  using System.Numerics;
  using System.Diagnostics;
  using System.Collections.Generic;
  using System.Linq;
  using System.Text;
  using System.Security.Cryptography;
  using System.Web.UI;
  using System.Web.Script.Serialization;
  
  // SOLUTION CODE
  // ============================================
  PLACEHOLDER_CODE_BODY
  
  // TESTING CODE 
  // ============================================
  namespace EvaluatePrediction {
      class TestRunner {
          public bool ValidateSolution(int actual, int expected){
              return new JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(actual) == new JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(expected);
          }
  
          public string driver(List<int> a, int n, int expected){
              try{
                PLACEHOLDER_CLS_NAME solution_cls = new PLACEHOLDER_CLS_NAME();
                int pred_result = solution_cls.PLACEHOLDER_FN_NAME(a, n); 
                if (ValidateSolution(
                      pred_result,
                      expected)){
                  return "PASSED";
                }
                return "FAILED";
              } 
              catch (Exception exception_obj)
              {
                return exception_obj.GetType().FullName;
              }
          }
          static void Main(string[] args) {
              TestRunner runner = new TestRunner();
              String result;
              result = runner.driver(
                  new List<int>{1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 10, 16, 20, 22, 22, 23, 23, 23, 27, 29, 32, 35, 39, 41, 46, 51, 53, 54, 59, 59, 60, 61, 69, 70, 70, 79, 79, 81, 84, 90, 91, 98}, 25, 
                  24
              );
              Console.WriteLine(string.Format(
                  "TEST-0...{0}",
                  result)
              );result = runner.driver(
                  new List<int>{-6, 10}, 1, 
                  0
              );
              Console.WriteLine(string.Format(
                  "TEST-1...{0}",
                  result)
              );result = runner.driver(
                  new List<int>{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1}, 15, 
                  0
              );
              Console.WriteLine(string.Format(
                  "TEST-2...{0}",
                  result)
              );result = runner.driver(
                  new List<int>{20, 61, 92, 45, 75, 26, 83, 5, 85, 27, 39, 88, 36, 39, 83, 41, 56, 77, 39, 69, 72, 98, 39, 15, 29, 69, 64, 92, 96, 49, 59, 62, 53, 82, 40, 37, 29, 41}, 23, 
                  110
              );
              Console.WriteLine(string.Format(
                  "TEST-3...{0}",
                  result)
              );result = runner.driver(
                  new List<int>{-88, -60, -60, -58, -56, -56, -46, -44, -40, -38, -32, -28, -22, -18, -12, -4, -2, 10, 24, 24, 28, 38, 42, 46, 54, 64, 72, 74, 78, 96, 96}, 26, 
                  -2200
              );
              Console.WriteLine(string.Format(
                  "TEST-4...{0}",
                  result)
              );result = runner.driver(
                  new List<int>{0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1}, 39, 
                  0
              );
              Console.WriteLine(string.Format(
                  "TEST-5...{0}",
                  result)
              );result = runner.driver(
                  new List<int>{1, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12, 17, 17, 18, 21, 22, 26, 26, 31, 32, 33, 34, 39, 42, 43, 45, 46, 48, 50, 53, 53, 54, 55, 60, 61, 62, 63, 63, 64, 70, 70, 70, 71, 71, 78, 86, 88, 91, 92, 95, 95, 96, 97, 99}, 28, 
                  27
              );
              Console.WriteLine(string.Format(
                  "TEST-6...{0}",
                  result)
              );result = runner.driver(
                  new List<int>{-42, 44, -80, -60, 48, 66, 54, -76, 26, -74, -10, 46, -50, 42, -26, -24, -14, 36, -2, -26, 16, -10, 20, -88, -78}, 19, 
                  -1584
              );
              Console.WriteLine(string.Format(
                  "TEST-7...{0}",
                  result)
              );result = runner.driver(
                  new List<int>{0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1}, 5, 
                  0
              );
              Console.WriteLine(string.Format(
                  "TEST-8...{0}",
                  result)
              );result = runner.driver(
                  new List<int>{65, 32, 66, 82, 86, 98, 15, 33, 57, 3, 73, 45, 90, 82, 33, 99, 44, 76, 50, 89, 5, 7, 64}, 22, 
                  63
              );
              Console.WriteLine(string.Format(
                  "TEST-9...{0}",
                  result)
              );
          }
      }
  }
  
source_py: def minimum_cost_make_array_size_1_removing_larger_pairs(a, n):
      return ((n - 1) * min(a))
source_cpp: int minimum_cost_make_array_size_1_removing_larger_pairs(vector<int> a, int n) {
    return ( n - 1 ) * ( * min_element(a.begin(), a.end()) );
  }