Consider how two machines in a distributed system behave. Both have clocks that should be ticking at $800$ times per millisecond. One of them does, but the other just ticks once every $760$ milliseconds. What is the maximum clock skew that can occur if UTC updates are received once per minute?

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a$.$

The maximum clock skew that can occur if UTC updates are received once per minute $=0\mathrm{.}03$ x $60$ sec$,$ or $1800$ msec.

b$.$

The maximum clock skew that can occur if UTC updates are received once per minute $=0\mathrm{.}02$ x $60$ sec$,$ or $1200$ msec.

c$.$

The maximum clock skew that can occur if UTC updates are received once per minute $=0\mathrm{.}04$ x $60$ sec$,$ or $2400$ msec.

d$.$

The maximum clock skew that can occur if UTC updates are received once per minute $=0\mathrm{.}05$ x $60$ sec$,$ or $3000$ msec.