Question: Suppose I use a monoalphabetic substitution cipher ( MSC ) for which the plaintext alphabet is the set of English characters and the ciphertext alphabet

Suppose I use a monoalphabetic substitution cipher (MSC) for which the plaintext alphabet is the set of English characters and the ciphertext alphabet is a subset of the possible 2-digit numbers. After encrypting the following plaintext:
I love a good code
I get the following ciphertext:
172983265952708336794383497959
Which of the following statements is true? (Hint: try filling out the key starting at the beginning of the plaintext/ciphertext and moving to the right, and see if you can find a solution that accords with one of the answers below.)
Group of answer choices
I could have used an ordinary MSC (with no enhancements)
My MSC must be augmented with a null, but no dowbleth required
My MSC must be augmented with a dowbleth, but no null required
My MSC must be augmented with a dowbleth and a null
I couldn't have used an MSC even with a dowbleth and/or a null

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