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Solution: Rearranging Fruits

Explore how to use a greedy algorithm to solve the problem of making two fruit baskets identical by swapping fruits at minimal cost. Understand how frequency counting, sorting, and cost optimization combine to ensure the lowest overall swap cost, and learn to apply these strategies to similar optimization challenges.

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 ...