Paint House

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There is a row of n houses, where each house can be painted one of three colors: red, blue, or green. The cost of painting each house with a certain color is different. You have to paint all the houses such that no two adjacent houses have the same color.

The cost of painting each house with a certain color is represented by an n x 3 cost matrix costs.

For example, costs[0][0] is the cost of painting house 0 with the color red; costs[1][2] is the cost of painting house 1 with color green, and so on...

Return the minimum cost to paint all houses.

Example 1:

Input: costs = [[17,2,17],[16,16,5],[14,3,19]]

Output: 10

Explanation: Paint house 0 into blue, paint house 1 into green, paint house 2 into blue.
Minimum cost: 2 + 5 + 3 = 10.

Example 2:

Input: costs = [[7,6,2]]

Output: 2

Example 3:

Input: costs = [[15,10,16],[10,1,11]]

Output: 16

Constraints:

  • 1 <= costs.length <= 100
  • costs[i].length == 3
  • 1 <= costs[i][j] <= 20


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