Quiz submission record for quiz5-2-2 at Thu Jul 22 10:24:00 2004: Your Answer for Question 1: the slot directly after a delayed branch instruction, which in the miPs achitecture is filled by an instruction that does not affect the branch. its function is to fill the time that a before a delayed branch is token. so that we can fill the dead time . Your Answer for Question 2: because lw is the critical path in the datapath, we'd have to wait until the very end of the instruction to get the value of $t0 Your Answer for Question 3: this wouldn't work, because we won't be able to fetch the next instruction since we would need the same memory to store the alu reg/read. Your unique submission ID is quiz5-2-2-cs61c-ek-1090517040-3237.