Which of the following statements about threads is/are TRUE?

Which of the following process state transitions is/are NOT possible?

Consider the following two threads T1 and T2 that update two shared variables a and b. Assume that initially $a = 1$ and $b = 1$. Though context switching between threads can happen at any time, each statement of T1 or T2 is executed atomically without interruption.

T1:
$a = a + 1$;
$b = b + 1$;

T2:
$b = 2 * b$;
$a = 2 * a$;

Which one of the following options lists all the possible combinations of values of a and b after both T1 and T2 finish execution?

Consider the following code snippet using the fork() and wait() system calls. Assume that the code compiles and runs correctly, and that the system calls run successfully without any errors.

int x = 3;
while(x > 0) {
  fork();
  printf("hello");
  wait(NULL);
  x--;
}

The total number of times the printf statement is executed is _______