why is the minimum no of pages that a student reads is atlaest 40 and not 10?
Doubt in book allocation problem
actually what 40, represents is the minimum possible answer not the minimum possible page, since your answer is maximum number of pages that can be assigned to students and you have to minimize the answer. so at any point the answer has to be >= 40 as one student will read book with 40 page (since you can’t divide the book)so your answer has to be atleast 40