How does a computer know when to send packets to the default gateway?

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The sending computer must first know its network address. It determines this by doing a logical AND operation between its IP address and subnet mask, which results in the network ID of the address.
The next step is to determine whether the destination computer's address is on the same network or a different network. The same AND calculation is done between the destination computer's IP address and the sending computer's subnet mask. The result is the destination computer's network ID. If the network ID of the sending computer is different than the network ID of the destination, the packet is sent to the router or default gateway.

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A ________ consists of rows and columns of data or numbers

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A. InputStream B. OutputStream C. println D. FileInputStream

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