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Solution: Rearranging Fruits

Explore how to use greedy algorithms to rearrange fruits between two baskets so their costs match. Learn to count fruit frequencies, identify excess fruits, and apply cost-efficient swaps to minimize the total swap expenditure. Understand when solutions are impossible and analyze the time and space complexity of this approach.

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 ...