Which of the following searches would take the longest?
A)serial exhaustive search of ten items
B)parallel search of thirty items
C)serial self-terminating search of the fifth of twenty items
D)parallel search of ten items

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A serial exhaustive search of ten items would take the longest because it checks each item one by one until the end of the list, regardless of whether the target is found early. Parallel searches (B and D) can be faster as they divide the workload among multiple processors. A serial self-terminating search (C) stops once the target is found, which could be quicker if the target is early in the list.

Which of the Following Searches Would Take the Longest