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Grokking the Coding Interview Patterns in Go

Solution: Rearranging Fruits

Explore a greedy algorithm to equalize two baskets of fruits by swapping with minimal cost. Understand how to count frequencies, identify excess fruits, and use sorting to ensure the lowest possible swap cost. This lesson helps you implement an efficient solution to balance baskets using greedy techniques.

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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 ...