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In a packet switching network, packets are routed from source to destination along a single path having two intermediate nodes. If the message size is 24 bytes and each packet contains a header of 3 bytes, then the optimum packet size is:

a.

4

b.

6

c.

7

d.

9

Answer: (d).9

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