Use Huffman Coding to Encode These Symbols with Given Frequencies $$a : 0.35 , b : 0.4 , c : 0.2 , d : 0.05 \text {. What is }$$

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Use Huffman coding to encode these symbols with given frequencies: $$a : 0.35 , b : 0.4 , c : 0.2 , d : 0.05 \text {. What is }$$ the average number of bits required to encode a character?

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