answer should be 'q'
here maximum page faults are asked...
MAX page fault occure when frame allocated is minimum..
say referred string is
2,3,1,4,5,3,2...here total refrences are 7 while unique refrences are only 5 that is {1,2,3,4,5}
now for max page fault allocate ONLY 1 FRAME....
so page faults=no of refrenced string ....(not alwasy true it depends on refrenced string ...but as worst case is expected..we assume no same pages refrenced one after other )