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Min Cost to Paint Houses

You are given a row of n houses, where each house can be painted in one of three colors: Red, Green, or Blue. The cost of painting house i with color j is given in a 2D array 'costs', where costs[i][j] is the cost of painting house i with color j. You want to paint all houses such that no two adjacent houses have the same color. Write a program that calculates the minimum cost to paint all houses while adhering to this constraint. Input: - The first line contains an integer n, the number of houses. - The next n lines each contain three integers representing the costs of painting the house in Red, Green, and Blue respectively. Output: - A single integer representing the minimum cost to paint all houses. Example: Input: 3 17 2 17 16 16 5 14 3 19 Output: 10

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