Three People, One Car | Dataford Interview Questions

Explain the strategy to minimize total travel time for three people with one car to reach a city, where travel time is determined by the slowest person.

Given three positive integers a, b, and c representing the travel times of three people, return the minimum total time for all three to reach the city if only one car is available and each trip time equals the slowest passenger's time.

Function

min_travel_time(a, b, c)

Input

Three integers.

Output

An integer, the minimum total travel time.

Constraints

1 <= a, b, c <= 10^9
a, b, and c are integers

Function Signature

def min_travel_time(a, b, c):

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