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This short practice-question video walks through a four-variable Karnaugh map problem. The instructor identifies the 1s, circles adjacent cells to form groups, and answers four questions: number of prime implicants (PI), essential prime implicants (EPI), number of different minimal expressions, and the number of literals in a minimal expression. The on-screen answers are 8 PIs, 0 EPIs, and 2 different minimal expressions. Two handwritten sum-of-products expressions are shown as alternative groupings.

Chapters

1. 0:00 – 2:00 00:00-02:00

   The slide shows a K-map with rows cd, c'd', c'd, cd' and columns a'b', a'b, ab, ab'. The instructor circles 1s in the first column and top-right cell, then forms groups across adjacent cells. The four questions are listed: 1. Number of PI, 2. Number of EPI, 3. Number of different minimal expression possible, 4. Number of literals in minimal expression. The instructor writes '8' next to question 1 and '0' next to question 2.

2. 2:00 – 2:47 02:00-02:47

   The K-map now shows eight 1s circled in red and grouped by green loops. The left panel reads '1. Number of PI — 8' and '2. Number of EPI — 0'. A green arrow points to a handwritten sum-of-products expression, and a second red handwritten expression appears beneath it as an alternative grouping. Question 3 is underlined in red and answered with the value 2.

The lesson demonstrates how to extract prime implicants and essential prime implicants from a K-map. The instructor groups adjacent 1s to identify all eight prime implicants, then determines that none are essential (EPI = 0) because every 1 is covered by more than one group. With no essential implicants, multiple minimal coverings are possible; the instructor shows two alternative sum-of-products expressions and concludes that 2 different minimal expressions exist. The number of literals in a minimal expression is listed as the fourth question but its answer is not clearly visible in the sampled frames.