"I try to solve this initially using quick select where will take a pivot element and position the remaining elements and check if the current index is answer or not and continue the same but it requires o(n*n), but interviewee is expecting the best from me, so at the end i tried solving using heaps where will check the difference between k and n-k to use min or max heap after that we will heap the array, and will keep popping the element k-1 and return the peek one which leads to answer."
Mourya C. - "I try to solve this initially using quick select where will take a pivot element and position the remaining elements and check if the current index is answer or not and continue the same but it requires o(n*n), but interviewee is expecting the best from me, so at the end i tried solving using heaps where will check the difference between k and n-k to use min or max heap after that we will heap the array, and will keep popping the element k-1 and return the peek one which leads to answer."See full answer
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