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A B+ tree index is to be built on the name attribute of the relation STUDENT. Assume that all students names are of length 8 bytes, disk block are of size 512 bytes and index pointers are of size 4 bytes. Given this scenario what would be the best choice of the degree (i.e. the number of pointers per node) of the B+ tree ?

a.

16

b.

42

c.

43

d.

44

Answer: (a).16

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