You are the network administrator and are given the tasks to plan for the future expansion of the network. You decide to subnet the current network of 172.15.0.0. What will be the subnet mask be if every subnet has to allocate 500 hosts.

A) 255.255.0.0

B) 255.0.0.0

C) 255.255.240.0

D) 255.255.254.0

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Option – D.