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 Arrays
 Given an array of integers and an integer target, return indices of the
two numbers such that they add up to target.
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B Given an integer array nums, find the subarray with the largest sum,
and return its sum.
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R Given an array nums with n objects colored red, white, or blue, sort
them in-place so that objects of the same color are adjacent, with
the colors in the order red, white, and blue.
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 % Given an array nums of n integers, return an array of all the unique
quadruplets [nums[a], nums[b], nums[c], nums[d]] such that:

0 <= a, b, c, d < n

a, b, c, and d are distinct.

nums[a] + nums[b] + nums[c] + nums[d] == target

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L% Given an array of intervals where intervals[i] = [starti, endi], merge all

overlapping intervals, and return an array of the non-overlapping
intervals that cover all the intervals in the input.
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 Strings
 Given a string s of '(' , ')' and lowercase English characters.

Your task is to remove the minimum number of parentheses ( '(' or ')',

in any positions ) so that the resulting parentheses string is valid and
return any valid string.
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X Given a string s, sort it in decreasing order based on the frequency

of the characters. The frequency of a character is the number of
times it appears in the string.

Return the sorted string. If there are multiple answers, return any of
them.
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 Given two strings s1 and s2, return true if s2 contains a permutation
of s1, or false otherwise.

In other words, return true if one of s1's permutations is the substring

of s2.
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S Given a string s, partition s such that every

Substring of the partition is a Palindrome. Return all possible

palindrome partitioning of s.
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t Given two strings s and t of lengths m and n respectively, return the

minimum window

Substring of s such that every character in t (including duplicates) is

included in the window. If there is no such substring, return the
empty string "".
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 Recursion
# Given the head of a linked list and an integer val, remove all the
nodes of the linked list that has Node.val == val, and return the new
head.
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S# Given the head of a singly linked list, reverse the list, and return the
reversed list.
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l# Given an integer array nums of unique elements, return all possible 

Subsets (the power set).

The solution set must not contain duplicate subsets. Return the
solution in any order
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 Given n pairs of parentheses, write a function to generate all
combinations of well-formed parentheses.
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 Hashing

! Design a data structure that follows the constraints of a Least

Recently Used (LRU) cache.

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E Given an unsorted integer array nums, return the smallest missing

positive integer.

You must implement an algorithm that runs in O(n) time and uses

constant extra space.

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  Matrices
! Given an m x n matrix, return all elements of the matrix in spiral order.
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L! Determine if a 9 x 9 Sudoku board is valid. Only the filled cells need

to be validated according to the following rules:

Each row must contain the digits 1-9 without repetition.

Each column must contain the digits 1-9 without repetition.

Each of the nine 3 x 3 sub-boxes of the grid must contain the digits
1-9 without repetition.
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|! Given an m x n grid of characters board and a string word, return true

if word exists in the grid. The word can be constructed from letters of
sequentially adjacent cells, where adjacent cells are horizontally or
vertically neighboring. The same letter cell may not be used more
than once.
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  Linked List

- Given the root of a binary tree, flatten the tree into a "linked list":

The "linked list" should use the same TreeNode class where the right

child pointer points to the next node in the list and the left child

pointer is always null.

The "linked list" should be in the same order as a pre-order traversal

of the binary tree.

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O- Given the head of a singly linked list, return true if it is a palindrome

or false otherwise.

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 Given the head of a linked list, reverse the nodes of the list k at a
time, and return the modified list. k is a positive integer and is less
than or equal to the length of the linked list. If the number of nodes is
not a multiple of k then left-out nodes, in the end, should remain as it
is.

You may not alter the values in the list's nodes, only nodes
themselves may be changed.

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R You are given the heads of two sorted linked lists list1 and list2.

Merge the two lists in a one sorted list. The list should be made by
splicing together the nodes of the first two lists.

Return the head of the merged linked list.

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 You are given two non-empty linked lists representing two non-
negative integers. The digits are stored in reverse order, and each of
their nodes contains a single digit. Add the two numbers and return
the sum as a linked list.

You may assume the two numbers do not contain any leading zero,
except the number 0 itself.
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I Given a linked list, swap every two adjacent nodes and return its
head. You must solve the problem without modifying the values in
the list's nodes (i.e., only nodes themselves may be changed.)
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 Bit Manipulation and Math
" Given an array nums containing n distinct numbers in the range [0,
n], return the only number in the range that is missing from the array.
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\ Given an integer n, return an array ans of length n + 1 such that for

each i (0 <= i <= n), ans[i] is the number of 1's in the binary
representation of i.
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 Stacks and Queues
", Given an array of integers heights representing the histogram's bar
height where the width of each bar is 1, return the area of the largest
rectangle in the histogram.
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I, Design a stack that supports push, pop, top, and retrieving the
minimum element in constant time.
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{, Implement a last-in-first-out (LIFO) stack using only two queues. The

implemented stack should support all the functions of a normal stack
(push, top, pop, and empty).
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 Implement the BSTIterator class that represents an iterator over the
in-order traversal of a binary search tree (BST)
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P Given n non-negative integers representing an elevation map where

the width of each bar is 1, compute how much water it can trap after
raining.
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 Trees and Binary Search Trees
/ Given the root of a binary tree, return its maximum depth.

A binary tree's maximum depth is the number of nodes along the

longest path from the root node down to the farthest leaf node.
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Z/ Given a binary tree, find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two
given nodes in the tree.
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|/ Given the root of a binary search tree, and an integer k, return the
kth smallest value (1-indexed) of all the values of the nodes in the
tree.
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 Given the root of a binary tree, return the level order traversal of its
nodes' values. (i.e., from left to right, level by level).
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Q You are given the root of a binary tree containing digits from 0 to 9
only.

Each root-to-leaf path in the tree represents a number.

For example, the root-to-leaf path 1 -> 2 -> 3 represents the number
123.Return the total sum of all root-to-leaf numbers. Test cases are
generated so that the answer will fit in a 32-bit integer.
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s Given the roots of two binary trees root and subRoot, return true if
there is a subtree of root with the same structure and node values of
subRoot and false otherwise.
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 Tries
' A trie (pronounced as "try") or prefix tree is a tree data structure
used to efficiently store and retrieve keys in a dataset of strings.
There are various applications of this data structure, such as
autocomplete and spellchecker.

Implement the Trie.

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O Given an array of strings strs, group the anagrams together. You can
return the answer in any order.
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 Heaps
 You are given an array of k linked-lists lists, each linked-list is sorted
in ascending order.

Merge all the linked-lists into one sorted linked-list and return it.
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O The median is the middle value in an ordered integer list. If the size of
the list is even, there is no middle value, and the median is the mean
of the two middle values.

Implement the MedianFinder class:

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 Graphs
 Given is a 2D adjacency list representation of a graph. Check
whether the graph is a Bipartite graph.
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L An image is represented by an m x n integer grid image where

image[i][j] represents the pixel value of the image.

You are also given three integers sr, sc, and color. You should
perform a flood fill on the image starting from the pixel image[sr][sc].
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„ Given an m x n 2D binary grid grid which represents a map of '1's

(land) and '0's (water), return the number of islands.

An island is surrounded by water and is formed by connecting

adjacent lands horizontally or vertically. You may assume all four
edges of the grid are all surrounded by water.
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 Given a reference of a node in a connected undirected graph.

Return a deep copy (clone) of the graph.

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U Given an m x n integers matrix, return the length of the longest

increasing path in matrix.

From each cell, you can either move in four directions: left, right, up,
or down. You may not move diagonally or move outside the boundary
(i.e., wrap-around is not allowed).

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 Dynamic Programming
) Given an integer array nums, find a subarray that has the largest
product, and return the product.

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Y) Given two strings text1 and text2, return the length of their longest
common subsequence. If there is no common subsequence, return 0.

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‰) There is a robot on an m x n grid. The robot is initially located at the

top-left corner (i.e., grid[0][0]). The robot tries to move to the
bottom-right corner (i.e., grid[m - 1][n - 1]). The robot can only move
either down or right at any point in time.

Given the two integers m and n, return the number of possible unique
paths that the robot can take to reach the bottom-right corner.

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