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Total Cost to Hire K Workers

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costs[i] is the cost of hiring the i-th worker. Run k hiring sessions: in each, consider the first `candidates` workers and the last `candidates` workers still available, and hire the one with the lowest cost (lowest index on ties). Return the total cost to hire k workers.

(costs=[17,12,10,2,7,2,11,20,8], k=3, candidates=4) → 11

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