Dsa
Queue
Medium
Automated Ticketing System
Design an automated ticketing system for a concert where customers arrive at various times and each takes a certain amount of time to purchase a ticket. Compute the total ticket purchasing time for all customers.
Input Format:
- The first line contains an integer N (1 <= N <= 1000), the number of customers.
- Each of the next N lines contains two integers: arrival_time and ticket_purchase_time.
Output Format:
- The total time taken for all customers to finish purchasing tickets.
Example:
Input:
4
0 5
1 3
3 2
4 7
Output:
13
Key concepts
queueticketingprocessing
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