A message is made up entirely of characters from the set X = {P,Q,R,S, – McqOptions

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A message is made up entirely of characters from the set X = {P,Q,R,S,T}. The table of probabilities for each of the characters is shown below:
Character Probability
P 0.22
Q 0.34
R 0.17
S 0.19
T 0.08
Total 1.00

If a message of 100 characters over X is encoded using Huffman coding, then the expected length of the encoded message in bits is ________.

A.

125

B.

225

C.

525

D.

121

Answer» C. 525

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