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Problem: Bus Routes

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40 min
Explore how to solve the bus routes problem by applying graph theory and algorithmic patterns. Understand how to compute the minimum number of buses needed to travel from a given source to destination and learn strategies to handle routes and stations efficiently in coding interviews.

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You are given an array, routes, representing bus routes where routes[i] is a bus route that the ithi^{th} bus repeats forever. Every route contains one or more stations. You have also been given the source station, src, and a destination station, dest. Return the minimum number of buses someone must take to travel from src to dest, or return -1 if there is no route.

Constraints:

  • 11 \le routes.length 50\le 50
  • 11 \le routes[i].length 100\le 100
  • 00 \le routes[i][j] <1000< 1000
  • 00 \le src, dest <1000< 1000
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Problem: Bus Routes

Hard
40 min
Explore how to solve the bus routes problem by applying graph theory and algorithmic patterns. Understand how to compute the minimum number of buses needed to travel from a given source to destination and learn strategies to handle routes and stations efficiently in coding interviews.

Statement

You are given an array, routes, representing bus routes where routes[i] is a bus route that the ithi^{th} bus repeats forever. Every route contains one or more stations. You have also been given the source station, src, and a destination station, dest. Return the minimum number of buses someone must take to travel from src to dest, or return -1 if there is no route.

Constraints:

  • 11 \le routes.length 50\le 50
  • 11 \le routes[i].length 100\le 100
  • 00 \le routes[i][j] <1000< 1000
  • 00 \le src, dest <1000< 1000