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A process may be in anyone of the following states

  1. NEW

  2. READY

  3. RUNNING

  4. WAIT

  5. All of the above
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Explanation

A process in an operating system cycles through several states during its lifetime. NEW is when it's created, READY when waiting for CPU, RUNNING when executing, and WAIT (or BLOCKED) when waiting for I/O or resources. These are the fundamental states in process management.

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