On a table there are several cards, some face up and others face down. The allowed operation is to choose 4 cards and turn them over. The goal is to get all the cards in the same state (all face up or all face down). Determine if the objective can be achieved through a sequence of permitted operations if initially there are:
a) 101 cards face up and 102 face down;
b) 101 cards face up and 101 face down.