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3190. Find Minimum Operations to Make All Elements Divisible by Three

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Problem Statement

3190. Find Minimum Operations to Make All Elements Divisible by Three

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You are given an integer array nums. In one operation, you can add or subtract 1 from any element of nums.

Return the minimum number of operations to make all elements of nums divisible by 3.

 

Example 1:

Input: nums = [1,2,3,4]

Output: 3

Explanation:

All array elements can be made divisible by 3 using 3 operations:

Example 2:

Input: nums = [3,6,9]

Output: 0

 

Constraints:

Java

Source file
class Solution {
    public int minimumOperations(int[] nums) {
        int ans = 0;
        for (int i : nums)
            if (i % 3 != 0)
                ans++;
        return ans;
    }
}