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Dispatch latency is :

a.

the speed of dispatching a process from running to the ready state

b.

the time of dispatching a process from running to ready state and keeping the CPU idle

c.

the time to stop one process and start running another one

d.

None of these

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Answer: (c).the time to stop one process and start running another one

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