Medium
Minimum Cost to Equalize Arrays Using Swaps — C++
Full explanation · Time O(n) · Space O(n)
// Time: O(n)
// Space: O(n)
// freq table, greedy
class Solution {
public:
int minCost(vector<int>& nums1, vector<int>& nums2) {
unordered_map<int, int> cnt;
for (const auto& x : nums1) {
++cnt[x];
}
for (const auto& x : nums2) {
--cnt[x];
}
int result = 0;
for (const auto& [_, c] : cnt) {
if (c % 2) {
return -1;
}
if (c / 2 > 0) {
result += c / 2;
}
}
return result;
}
};