John is asked to make an automaton which accepts a given string for all the occurrence of ‘1001’ in it. How many number of transitions would John use such that, the string processing application works?
(a) 9
(b) 11
(c) 12
(d) 15
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This intriguing question comes from Applications of NFA in division Finite Automata of Automata Theory