Max Workers From Shoe Batches | Dataford Interview Questions

Given a string of R and L shoes where each worker must have an even amount of R and L shoes in their batch, how many workers can you assign to the line?

Implement max_workers(shoes), where shoes contains only R and L. Each worker requires exactly two R shoes and two L shoes. Return 0 if either total is odd; otherwise, return the number of complete worker batches possible. Unused shoes may remain.

Constraints

1 <= len(shoes) <= 1000
shoes contains only the characters R and L
A worker requires exactly two R shoes and two L shoes
Return 0 if either shoe count is odd

Function Signature

def max_workers(shoes):

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Problem

Given a string of R and L shoes where each worker must have an even amount of R and L shoes in their batch, how many workers can you assign to the line?

Constraints

1 <= len(shoes) <= 1000
shoes contains only the characters R and L
A worker requires exactly two R shoes and two L shoes
Return 0 if either shoe count is odd

Function Signature

def max_workers(shoes):

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Run and submit as often as you like. When you're ready, talk me through your approach or go straight to the code.