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Solution: Rearranging Fruits

Understand how to apply greedy techniques to minimize the cost of swapping fruits between two baskets so they become identical. Explore the use of frequency counts, sorting, and cost optimization to solve the problem efficiently with clear steps, and learn how to handle cases where matching the baskets is impossible.

Statement

Given two 0-indexed integer arrays, basket1 and basket2, representing the cost of each fruit in the basket. Each basket contains nn fruits. Make the two baskets identical, i.e., both arrays should have the same costs.

To achieve this, perform the following operation as many times as necessary:

  1. Select two indexes, ii and jj, and swap the fruit at index ii in basket1 with the fruit at index jj ...