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A text is made up of the characters a, b, c, d, e each occurring with the probability .12, .4, .15, .08 and .25 respectively. The optimal coding technique will have the average length of

a.

1.78

b.

2.03

c.

2.15

d.

3.01

Answer: (c).2.15

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