# 1443. Minimum Time to Collect All Apples in a Tree ###### tags: `leetcode` ## Problem Statement Given an undirected tree consisting of n vertices numbered from 0 to n-1, which has some apples in their vertices. You spend 1 second to walk over one edge of the tree. Return the minimum time in seconds you have to spend to collect all apples in the tree, starting at vertex 0 and coming back to this vertex. The edges of the undirected tree are given in the array edges, where edges[i] = [ai, bi] means that exists an edge connecting the vertices ai and bi. Additionally, there is a boolean array hasApple, where hasApple[i] = true means that vertex i has an apple; otherwise, it does not have any apple. - Example 1: ![](https://i.imgur.com/8XvtyEL.png) >Input: n = 7, edges = [[0,1],[0,2],[1,4],[1,5],[2,3],[2,6]], hasApple = [false,false,true,false,true,true,false] Output: 8 >>Explanation: The figure above represents the given tree where red vertices have an apple. One optimal path to collect all apples is shown by the green arrows. - Example 2: ![](https://i.imgur.com/ARQ8r3S.png) >Input: n = 7, edges = [[0,1],[0,2],[1,4],[1,5],[2,3],[2,6]], hasApple = [false,false,true,false,false,true,false] Output: 6 >>Explanation: The figure above represents the given tree where red vertices have an apple. One optimal path to collect all apples is shown by the green arrows. - Example 3: >Input: n = 7, edges = [[0,1],[0,2],[1,4],[1,5],[2,3],[2,6]], hasApple = [false,false,false,false,false,false,false] Output: 0 - Constraints: >1 <= n <= 105 edges.length == n - 1 edges[i].length == 2 0 <= ai < bi <= n - 1 fromi < toi hasApple.length == n ## Solution - This is a harder problem to `DFS`. - Because not all the nodes are required to traverse, and the format of the graph is a undirected graph, the best way to do it is to use DFS to search for the path for the designated dst. - When starting, prepare the list for adjancent nodes. ```cpp= for (auto &i : edges) { adjList[i[0]].push_back(i[1]); adjList[i[1]].push_back(i[0]); } ``` - After the construction of the edges, start traversal with the distance remembered. - If the path is needed, add the redundant part in case multiple same paths are counted ```cpp= for (auto &i : adjList[start]) { if (i != priv) { temp = dfs(i, dist + 1, start, hasApple); if (temp) cur += temp - dist; } } ``` - After the iteration for all the adjancent nodes, count the result for this one if this node should be included ```cpp= return (cur || hasApple[start]) ? dist + cur : 0; ```