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Given the following page table for a process currently executing on a processor,

Virtual page number | Valid bit | Frame number
0 | 1 | 4
1 | 1 | 7
2 | 0 | -
3 | 1 | 2
4 | 0 | -
5 | 1 | 0

What physical address (if any) would virtual address 1053 translate to?

All numbers are decimal, everything is numbered starting from 0, and all addresses are memory byte addresses. The page size is 1024 bytes.

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Given, page size (Sp) = 1024 bytes
Frame size will be same as page size.

To determine the physical address from a virtual address, we first compute the virtual page number as -
Virtual page number (Vn) = virtual address / Sp

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