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Solution: Rearranging Fruits

Explore how to apply greedy algorithms and sorting techniques to solve the problem of making two fruit baskets identical with minimal swap cost. Understand how frequency counts help identify excess fruits and how sorting ensures the lowest cost swaps. This lesson guides you through implementing an efficient solution while analyzing its time and space complexity.

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 ...