Merge two count maps in Java

Java interview exercise on Collections, difficulty 1 of 3. Solve it in the editor beside a worked example; the tests run the moment you do.

Write mergeCounts(a, b) that returns a new map holding every key of a and b, with the counts of keys in both added together. Neither input is modified.

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