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Data Representation

This document consists of 11 pages containing questions about representing numbers and drink selections in binary, hexadecimal, and decimal number systems as well as 6-bit and 3-bit registers. Questions cover converting between number systems, determining drink selections from register values, identifying errors, and advantages of splitting a register. The document tests skills in data representation, number conversions, binary logic, and error detection.

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Data Representation

This document consists of 11 pages containing questions about representing numbers and drink selections in binary, hexadecimal, and decimal number systems as well as 6-bit and 3-bit registers. Questions cover converting between number systems, determining drink selections from register values, identifying errors, and advantages of splitting a register. The document tests skills in data representation, number conversions, binary logic, and error detection.

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General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level

Data Representation
STUDENT NAME

BATCH #

COMPUTER SCIENCE

This document consist of 11 printed pages


1. A variety of goods stored in a warehouse. All goods are bar coded. The number of each
item in the warehouse is stored as a binary number.
(a) Change 125 into a binary number stored in an 8 bit byte. Show your working.

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Your Answer: ( )2 [2]
(b) Convert your answer in question 1. (a), into hexadecimal number. Show your
working.

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Your Answer: ( )16 [2]
(c) Convert your answer in question 1. (b) into denary (decimal) number. Show your
working.
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Your Answer: ( )10 [2]

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2. A vending machine has the choices shown below

A customer uses a keypad to make their choice. Each number entered is represented in
a 6-bit binary register.
For example, key press 33 (hot chocolate with extra milk and extra sugar) is represented
by:

(a) (i) If a customer chooses coffee with milk and sugar what is the key press?

[1]
(ii) How is it represented in the 6-bit register?

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(b) If the 6-bit register shows

What drink has the customer chosen?

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(c) A customer using the vending machine gets an error message after keying in their
selection.
What could have caused this error message?

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(d) It was decided to split the register so that each digit was represented by its own 3-bit
register:

(i) What drink has been chosen if the 3-bit registers contain:

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(ii) How would the lemon option be shown on both types of register?

[2]

(iii) What is the advantage of using two 3-bit registers rather than one 6-bit
register?

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