If we can improve the latency of one of the given datapath components by 10%, which component should it be? What is the speedup from this improvement?

For the remaining problems in this exercise, assume that there are no pipeline stalls and that the breakdown of executed instructions is as follows:

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a. b. ADD 20% 30% ADDI 20% 10% NOT 0% 0% BEQ 25% 10% LW 25% 30% SW 10% 20%