Above NFA in comments having 2 states but its corresponding minimized dfa having 1 states.
nfa having n states, can have maximum of $2^n$ states in corresponding DFA.
say $\{q_0,q_1\}$ are states in nfa, then its corresponding DFA have maximum of 4 states, $\{\{\},\{q_1\},\{q_2\},\{q_1,q_2\}\}$