Let $$\left( {{X_1},\,{X_2}} \right)$$ be independent random variables, $${X_1}$$ has mean 0 and variance 1, while $${X_2}$$ has mean 1 and variance 4. The mutual information I $$\left( {{X_1},\,{X_2}} \right)$$ between $${{X_1}}$$ and $${{X_2}}$$ in bits is ________________.

Which one of the following graphs shows the Shannon capacity (channel capacity) in bits of a memory less binary symmetric channel with crossover probability P?

A discrete memoryless source has an alphabet $$({a_1},\,{a_2},\,{a_3},\,{a_4})\,$$ with corresponding probabilities$$\left( {{1 \over 2}\,\,,{1 \over 4},\,{1 \over 8},\,\,{1 \over 8}\,} \right)$$. The minimum required average codeword length in bits to represent this source for error-free reconstruction is__________________________

An analog baseband signal, band limited to 100 Hz, is sampled at the Nyquist rate. The samples are quantized into four message symbols that occur independently with probabilities $${p_1}$$ = $${p_4}$$ = 0.125 and $${p_2}$$ =$${p_3}$$. The information rate (bits/sec) of the message source is ____________________