The broadcast address for IP network 172.16.0.0 with subnet mask 255.255.0.0 is

To find the broadcast address, identify the network portion and host portion based on the subnet mask. The mask 255.255.0.0 corresponds to a /16 prefix, meaning the first two octets (172.16) are the network part and the last two octets are for hosts. The broadcast address is found by setting all host bits to 1, which changes the last two octets from 0.0 to 255.255. Thus, the broadcast address is 172.16.255.255.