Assume the scheduler in the OS will not start a job unless there are five tape drives available. When a job is started, five drives are assigned immediately and are not released until the job finishes. What is the maximum number of jobs that can be in progress at once? What are the maximum and minimum number of tape drives that may be left idle as a result of this policy?

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