Given is NFA first convert it into DFA then convert into Minimal DFA...
By converting NFA to DFA we get 9 ( = 8+1 DS) states and every state is unique therefore DFA is Minimal ===> no.of states in minimal DFA is 9.
the states in DFA are
⋋ a b
*q0 q1 q1 q2
**q1 - - q1q3
q2 q3 - -
**q1q3 - q0q3 q1q2q3
q3 - q0q3 q2
q0q3 q1 q0q1q3 q2
**q1q2q3 q3 q0q3 q1q2q3
**q0q1q3 q1 q0q1q3 q1q2q3
add Dead State as one more state and - in the transition leads to Dead state
By state equivalence theorem all are unique states....
* is intial state and ** are final states
note that ⋋ considered as input symbol not empty string