D. Since the dark part of the boomerang is on the different side, it had to have been rotated
The expected length of code for one encoded symbol is

where
is the probability of picking the letter
, and
is the length of code needed to encode
.
is given to us, and we have

so that we expect a contribution of

bits to the code per encoded letter. For a string of length
, we would then expect
.
By definition of variance, we have
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For a string consisting of one letter, we have

so that the variance for the length such a string is

"squared" bits per encoded letter. For a string of length
, we would get
.
Answer:
3x + x + 3x + x = 360
8x = 360
x = 45
3(45)= 135
Step-by-step explanation: