In contemporary routing and addressing, the notation commonly used is called classless interdomain routing or CIDR.With CIDR, the number of bits in the mask is indicated in the following fashion: 192.168.100.0/24. This corresponds to a mask of 255.255.255.0. If this example would provide for 256 host addresses on the network, how many addresses are provided with the following?

a. 192.168.100.0/23

b. 192.168.100.0/25