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 |983|[Minimum Cost For Tickets](https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-cost-for-tickets/) | [C++](./algorithms/cpp/minimumCostForTickets/MinimumCostForTickets.cpp)|Medium|
 |981|[Time Based Key-Value Store](https://leetcode.com/problems/time-based-key-value-store/) | [C++](./algorithms/cpp/timeBasedKeyValueStore/TimeBasedKeyValueStore.cpp)|Medium|
 |980|[Unique Paths III](https://leetcode.com/problems/unique-paths-iii/) | [C++](./algorithms/cpp/uniquePaths/UniquePaths.III.cpp)|Hard|
+|979|[Distribute Coins in Binary Tree](https://leetcode.com/problems/distribute-coins-in-binary-tree/) | [C++](./algorithms/cpp/distributeCoinsInBinaryTree/DistributeCoinsInBinaryTree.cpp)|Medium|
 |978|[Longest Turbulent Subarray](https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-turbulent-subarray/) | [C++](./algorithms/cpp/longestTurbulentSubarray/LongestTurbulentSubarray.cpp),[Python](./algorithms/python/LongestTurbulentSubarray/maxTurbulenceSize.py)|Medium|
 |977|[Squares of a Sorted Array](https://leetcode.com/problems/squares-of-a-sorted-array/) | [C++](./algorithms/cpp/squaresOfASortedArray/SquaresOfASortedArray.cpp), [Python](./algorithms/python/SquaresOfSortedArray/sortedSquares.py)|Easy|
 |976|[Largest Perimeter Triangle](https://leetcode.com/problems/largest-perimeter-triangle/) | [Python](./algorithms/python/LargestPerimeterTriangle/largestPerimeter.py)|Easy|
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+// Source : https://leetcode.com/problems/distribute-coins-in-binary-tree/
+// Author : Hao Chen
+// Date   : 2019-03-29
+
+/***************************************************************************************************** 
+ *
+ * Given the root of a binary tree with N nodes, each node in the tree has node.val coins, and there 
+ * are N coins total.
+ * 
+ * In one move, we may choose two adjacent nodes and move one coin from one node to another.  (The 
+ * move may be from parent to child, or from child to parent.)
+ * 
+ * Return the number of moves required to make every node have exactly one coin.
+ * 
+ * Example 1:
+ * 
+ * Input: [3,0,0]
+ * Output: 2
+ * Explanation: From the root of the tree, we move one coin to its left child, and one coin to its 
+ * right child.
+ * 
+ * Example 2:
+ * 
+ * Input: [0,3,0]
+ * Output: 3
+ * Explanation: From the left child of the root, we move two coins to the root [taking two moves].  
+ * Then, we move one coin from the root of the tree to the right child.
+ * 
+ * Example 3:
+ * 
+ * Input: [1,0,2]
+ * Output: 2
+ * 
+ * Example 4:
+ * 
+ * Input: [1,0,0,null,3]
+ * Output: 4
+ * 
+ * Note:
+ * 
+ * 	1<= N <= 100
+ * 	0 <= node.val <= N
+ * 
+ ******************************************************************************************************/
+
+/**
+ * Definition for a binary tree node.
+ * struct TreeNode {
+ *     int val;
+ *     TreeNode *left;
+ *     TreeNode *right;
+ *     TreeNode(int x) : val(x), left(NULL), right(NULL) {}
+ * };
+ */
+class Solution {
+public:
+    int distributeCoins(TreeNode* root) {
+        int result = 0;
+        dfs(root, result);
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    //
+    // if a node has 0 coin, which means one move from its parent.
+    //               1 coin, which means zero move from its parent.
+    //               N coins, which means N-1 moves to its parent.
+    //
+    // So, we can simply know, the movement = coins -1.
+    // - negative number means the the coins needs be moved in.
+    // - positive number means the the coins nees be moved out.
+    //
+    // A node needs to consider the movement requests from both its left side and right side.
+    // and need to calculate the coins after left and right movement.
+    //
+    // So, the node coins  = my conins - the coins move out + the coins move in.
+    //
+    // Then we can have to code as below.
+    //
+    int dfs(TreeNode* root, int& result) {
+        if (root == NULL) return 0;
+
+        int left_move = dfs(root->left, result);
+        int right_move = dfs(root->right, result);
+        result += (abs(left_move) + abs(right_move));
+
+        // the coin after movement: coins = root->val +left_move + right_move
+        // the movement needs:  movement = coins - 1
+        return root->val + left_move + right_move - 1;
+    }
+};