A spy transmitted a coded distress signal consisting of a sequence of blinking porch lights: long, short, long, short. When the counterintelligence team decoded it using Morse code, it spelled 'K-A-R-T'. The agent later confessed he made a deliberate mistake in transmission because he was being watched by enemy guards. If the correct word he intended to send was 'T-A-N-K', how many light blips did he intentionally alter?
All four / every single one.
Comparing 'KART' (dash-dot-dash, dot, dash-dash-dot, dash) to 'TANK' (dash, dot-dash, dash-dot,-dash-dash-dash) shows that every single letter code was completely different, meaning all four signals were altered.
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