A chain email starts with a person sending an email out to five others. Each person...

A chain email starts with a person sending an email out to five others. Each person who receives the email is asked to send it on to five other people. Some people do this, but others do not send any emails.

a) How many people have seen the email, including the first person, if no one receives more than one email and if the chain email ends after there have been one hundred people who read it but did not sent it out?

b) How many people sent out the email?

I'm supposed to use a tree to solve this problem, the 100 people in section a are not internal vertices(i) , they are leaves(l)

by using the rules l = i * (m-1) + 1 and n = m * i + 1 please answer the question

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