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Consider a system having n CPUs, k processes, and k > n. Calculate the upper bound for the number of processes in the READY, RUNNING and BLOCKED states

  1 k, k, k.

  2 n, n, n

  3 k, k, n

  4 k, n, k

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1) All the k processes could be in ready state.

2) Only n of them could be in running state as there are n processors.

3) It may be possible that all of k processes go to blocked state.

So 4. k,n,k is correct.

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