Consider the following list. list = {20, 10, 17, 2, 18, 35, 30, 90, 48, 47}; Suppose that sequential search as discussed in the book is used to determine whether 95 is in list. Exactly how many key comparisons are executed by the sequential search algorithm?
A) 1
B) 8
C) 9
D) 10

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Sequential search compares the target value with each element in the list, starting from the first element. In this case, the target value is 95, and the list has 10 elements. Therefore, the sequential search algorithm will execute 10 key comparisons.

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