Consider an old fashioned telephone booth that can be occupied by one person at a time.Suppose one person went in and dialed a part of her number, and had to leave the booth.A second person went in and dialed a part of his number, and before the number was fully dialed, a connection to some other phone was made.What Java threads analogy fits this scenario?
i.The two people are the threads
II.The shared data is the telephone
III.The state of the object is corrupt
A)Only I
B)I and II
C)II and III
D)I, II, and III

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In this scenario, the two people represent two threads trying to access a shared resource (the telephone). The telephone represents the shared data that both threads are trying to use. The corruption occurs because the state of the telephone (the dialed number) is left in an inconsistent state by the first person, leading to an unintended outcome when the second person uses it. This is analogous to a situation in Java where multiple threads access and modify shared data without proper synchronization, leading to a corrupt state.

Consider an Old Fashioned Telephone Booth That Can Be Occupied