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You have the golden opportunity to stay at the world's best hotel, which is renowned for its food. There are exactly N buffets in this hotel and each buffet contains Bi amount of food. Every time you enter a buffet, you need to pay with 1 buffet voucher. You have been given exactly k buffet vouchers to spend. Once you enter the buffet, you eat all the food present in that buffet, and you leave the buffet once you finish eating. Once you have left, the hotel staff refill the buffet with half of the previous amount of food present (i.e if there were 4 units of food present earlier, they refill it with 2 units, if there were 5 units of food present earlier, they refill it with 2 units, i.e floor(x/2) ). You can enter a buffet multiple times. Your task is to find out the maximum amount of food you can eat.Input FormatFirst line contains an integer T. T test cases follow. First line of each test case contains two space-separated integers N and K. Second line of each test case contains N space-separated integers, the amount of food in each buffetConstraints1 ≤ T ≤ 101 ≤ N ≤ 1050 ≤ K ≤ 1050 ≤ Bi ≤ 1010Output FormatPrint the answer to each test case in a new line.Sample Input 015 32 1 7 4 2Sample Output 014Explanation 0You give your 1st coupon voucher and you eat 7 amounts of food. The hotel staff refills the item with 3 amounts of food, You spend your 2nd voucher and eat 4 amounts of food. The hotel staff refills it with 2 amount of food. You spend your 3rd voucher and eat 3 amounts of food. The hotel staff refills it with 1 amount of food. Hence amount you ate: 7 + 4 + 3 = 14

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You have the golden opportunity to stay at the world's best hotel, which is renowned for its food. There are exactly N buffets in this hotel and each buffet contains Bi amount of food. Every time you enter a buffet, you need to pay with 1 buffet voucher. You have been given exactly k buffet vouchers to spend. Once you enter the buffet, you eat all the food present in that buffet, and you leave the buffet once you finish eating. Once you have left, the hotel staff refill the buffet with half of the previous amount of food present (i.e if there were 4 units of food present earlier, they refill it with 2 units, if there were 5 units of food present earlier, they refill it with 2 units, i.e floor(x/2) ). You can enter a buffet multiple times. Your task is to find out the maximum amount of food you can eat.Input FormatFirst line contains an integer T. T test cases follow. First line of each test case contains two space-separated integers N and K. Second line of each test case contains N space-separated integers, the amount of food in each buffetConstraints1 ≤ T ≤ 101 ≤ N ≤ 1050 ≤ K ≤ 1050 ≤ Bi ≤ 1010Output FormatPrint the answer to each test case in a new line.Sample Input 015 32 1 7 4 2Sample Output 014Explanation 0You give your 1st coupon voucher and you eat 7 amounts of food. The hotel staff refills the item with 3 amounts of food, You spend your 2nd voucher and eat 4 amounts of food. The hotel staff refills it with 2 amount of food. You spend your 3rd voucher and eat 3 amounts of food. The hotel staff refills it with 1 amount of food. Hence amount you ate: 7 + 4 + 3 = 14

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Solution

This problem can be solved using a priority queue data structure. Here are the steps to solve this problem:

  1. Initialize a priority queue and insert all the buffet amounts into it.
  2. Initialize a variable to keep track of the total amount of food eaten.
  3. While you still have buffet vouchers and the priority queue is not empty, do the following:
    • Remove the largest amount of food from the priority queue and add it to your total.
    • Decrease the amount of food by half and insert it back into the priority queue.
    • Decrease the number of buffet vouchers by 1.
  4. Once you run out of buffet vouchers or the priority queue is empty, the total amount of food eaten is your answer.

Here is a Python code snippet that implements the above steps:

import heapq

def max_food(T, test_cases):
    for _ in range(T):
        N, K, B = test_cases[_]
        B = [-1*i for i in B]  # Convert to max heap
        heapq.heapify(B)
        total = 0
        for _ in range(K):
            if B:
                food = heapq.heappop(B)
                total -= food
                if food // 2 != 0:
                    heapq.heappush(B, food // 2)
        print(total)

T = 1
test_cases = [
    (5, 3, [2, 1, 7, 4, 2])
]
max_food(T, test_cases)

This code first converts the buffet amounts to a max heap. It then pops the largest amount from the heap, adds it to the total, and pushes half of it back into the heap. This process is repeated until all buffet vouchers are used or the heap is empty. The total amount of food eaten is then printed.

This problem has been solved

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