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Solution: Rearranging Fruits

Explore how to use a greedy algorithm to make two fruit baskets identical by swapping fruits at minimal cost. Understand counting techniques, sorting strategies, and how to balance excess fruits between baskets to achieve the lowest total swap cost.

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 ...