Given:
Network IP address [tex]\bold{= 172.149.254.0 /24}[/tex]
Subnet numbers [tex]\bold{= 13}[/tex]
Calculating the borrow bits:
[tex]\to \bold{= ceil(\log_{2} 13) = 4 \ bits}[/tex]
a)
Calculating the dotted decimal value for the subnet mask:
[tex]\to \bold{11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000}\\\\\to \bold{255.255.255.240}\\\\[/tex]
b)
The additional bits which will be needed to mask the subnet mask that is = 4.
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