Minimize travel time with optional meeting point

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Minimize travel time with optional meeting point

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This question evaluates a candidate's understanding of graph shortest-path computation and meeting-point optimization, testing skills in handling weighted edges, aggregating path costs, and reasoning about simultaneous movements on a network.

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Minimize travel time with optional meeting point