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Solution: Maximum Profitable Triplets With Increasing Prices I
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Problem Statement

You are given two 0-indexed arrays, prices and profits, both of length n. There are n items in an store where the i<sup>th</sup> item has a price of prices[i] and a profit of profits[i].

You have to select three items with the following condition:

  • prices[i] < prices[j] < prices[k] where i < j < k.
  • If such a selection is possible, calculate the total profit, which is profits[i] + profits[j] + profits[k].

Return the maximum possible profit from this selection. If it's not possible to select three items that satisfy these conditions, return -1

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