Maximum profit

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Datastructures, Dynamic Programming, Algorithms
Problem

In a game, you have the following:

  • Pile of N coins
  • List of restricted coins

Conditions

  • A player can choose at most K coins one by one.
  • They cannot choose a value that is present in the list of restricted coins.
  • At the beginning of the game, the list of restricted coins is empty. Whenever a player selects a coin, it is added to their profit and also appended in the list of restricted coins.
  • A player can discard a coin even if it is not present in the list of restricted coins.

Task

Your task is to determine the maximum profit that a player can make.

Input format

  • The first line contains T denoting the number of test cases.
  • In each test case:
    • The first line contains:
      • Two space-separated integers
      • Number of coins N
      • Maximum number of coins that a player can take K
    • The second line contains N space-seperated integers denoting the value of the coins.

Output format

  • For each test case, print a single line denoting the maximum profit a player can make.

Constraints

  • 1T20000
  • 1N200000
  • 1 <= Value of Coin <= 1e9
  • Sum of N over all test cases will not exceed 200000
Time Limit: 1
Memory Limit: 256
Source Limit:
Explanation

Player can choose 2 and 3. He can not choose any number twice as it will be added to restricted coin list.

2 moves will be wasted as he has no other option so profit=2+3=5.

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