What is the speedup from improving both

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Using Amdahl's law: You are going to enhance a machine and there are two possible improvements:

Either make multiply instructions run four times faster than before, or make memory access instructions run three times faster than before.

A program takes 100 seconds to execute before enhancement. 25% of the time is used by multiply instructions, 40% of the time is used by memory access instructions and the remaining 35% is used by other instructions.

a) What is the speedup from just improving multiply instructions?

b) What is the speedup from just improving memory access instructions?

c) What is the speedup from improving both?

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