I want to find the maximum no. of elements in a given positive integer array such that their sum is less than or equal to a given no. k. For example, I have an array
[3,4,7,2,6,5,1] and k=6;
The Answer is 3 as 1,2,3 are maximum elements to give sum 6.
Sort the array, count the number of elements, then start summing elements sequentially until their sum is greater than k or you have gone through each element, then subtract 1 from the count if the sum is greater than k
Pseudocode:
let k=6
sort the array
[1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
let sum=0
let count=7 //(7 elements in the array)
for (i=0;i<7;i++) {
sum+=array[i];
if (sum>k)
break;
}
if (sum>k)
i--;
i
is the max number of elements.
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