Consider the variation of the Dining Philosophers problems shown in Figure 6.17 (image below), where all unused chopsticks are placed in the center of the table and any philosopher can eat with any two chopsticks. One way to prevent deadlock in this system is to provide sufficient resources. For a system with n philosophers, what is the minimum number of chopsticks that ensures deadlock freedom? Why?

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