To maintain adequate control in any system, the control system must contain as much variety as the system being controlled. This is known as the
A) law of needful variety.
B) law of requisite variety.
C) law of conditional plurality.
D) law of requisite miscellany.
E) law of conditional variety.

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The correct term is the "law of requisite variety," which states that for a control system to effectively manage a system, it must have at least as much variety in its responses as the system it is trying to control. This principle is fundamental in cybernetics and systems theory.

To Maintain Adequate Control in Any System, the Control System