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Solution: Rearranging Fruits

Explore a greedy technique to solve the problem of making two fruit baskets identical by minimizing the cost of swaps. Understand how frequency counting, sorting, and careful pairing reduce the total swap cost while ensuring the baskets have the same fruit distribution. This lesson helps you implement and analyze a solution balancing cost and frequency for array manipulation 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 ...