In the IP addressing scheme of your organization, each subnet consists of 4096 hosts, and the beginning of the addressing scheme is 172.16.0.0. Your remote office is allocated the range of addresses from the first subnet. What are the CIDR notation, network address, broadcast address, and valid IP address in your assigned range?
A) 172.16.0.0/24, 172.16.0.0, 172.16.8.255, 172.16.0.51
B) 172.16.0.0/20, 172.16.0.0, 172.16.15.255, 172.16.8.252
C) 172.16.0.0/16, 172.16.0.0, 172.16.32.255, 172.16.22.4
D) 172.16.0.0/12, 172.16.0.0, 172.16.64.255, 172.16.52.112

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Each subnet with 4096 hosts requires a /20 CIDR notation (2^12 = 4096). The network address is 172.16.0.0, the broadcast address is 172.16.15.255, and a valid IP address within this range is 172.16.8.252.

In the IP Addressing Scheme of Your Organization, Each Subnet