A telemetry unit on a weather balloon needs to encode the wind direction sector and speed class into a single packet field representing one of 3,000 unique meteorological states.
Select the minimum number of bits required for this field to represent all 3,000 states.
11 bits11\text{ bits}11 bits
12 bits12\text{ bits}12 bits
13 bits13\text{ bits}13 bits
16 bits16\text{ bits}16 bits
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