Suppose the head of a moving-head disk with 200 tracks numbered 0 to 199 is currently serving a request at track 100 .The queue of outstanding requests in FIFO order is: 23, 89, 132, 42 and 187. What is the total number of head movements (in cylinders) for the following disk-scheduling algorithms?

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Suppose the head of a moving-head disk with 200 tracks numbered 0 to 199 is currently serving
a request at track 100 .The queue of outstanding requests in FIFO order is: 23, 89, 132, 42 and 187.
What is the total number of head movements (in cylinders) for the following disk-scheduling
algorithms?

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