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title: Ransom notes

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# Ransom notes


Given two strings ransomNote and magazine, return true if ransomNote can be constructed by using the letters from magazine and false otherwise.

Each letter in magazine can only be used once in ransomNote.

 

Example 1:
```
Input: ransomNote = "a", magazine = "b"
Output: false
```

Example 2:
```
Input: ransomNote = "aa", magazine = "ab"
Output: false
```

Example 3:
```
Input: ransomNote = "aa", magazine = "aab"
Output: true
```

Constraints:
```
1 <= ransomNote.length, magazine.length <= 105
ransomNote and magazine consist of lowercase English letters.
```

### Answer:

```python
def can_construct(ransomNote: str, magazine: str) -> bool:
    # ...
    
```