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Event Scheduling with Costs

You are managing a series of events, each with a start time, end time, and a cost. Your goal is to select a subset of these events such that no two events overlap and the total cost is minimized. Each event is represented as a tuple of (start_time, end_time, cost). Input: The first line contains an integer n (1 ≤ n ≤ 100) - the number of events. The next n lines contain three integers each representing start_time, end_time, and cost (0 ≤ start_time < end_time ≤ 10000, 0 ≤ cost ≤ 1000). Output: Print the minimum total cost to attend non-overlapping events. Example: Input: 3 1 3 100 2 5 150 4 6 50 Output: 150

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