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Solution: Rearranging Fruits

Explore how to solve the problem of making two fruit baskets identical at minimal cost using a greedy algorithm. Learn to count and balance fruit frequencies, apply sorting techniques, and calculate optimal swap costs efficiently. This lesson builds skills in applying greedy strategies to optimization problems.

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 ...