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Solution: Rearranging Fruits

Explore a greedy algorithm that balances two fruit baskets by swapping fruits at minimum cost. Understand how to count frequencies, identify excess fruits, and apply sorting to optimize swaps. This lesson helps you solve a real-world problem using greedy techniques and improve your problem-solving skills for coding interviews.

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 ...