Computer Science

Teacher: Maruf Ahmed

Worksheet on chapter 1

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 denary 1258 into a binary number stored in a 12 bit register. Show your working.

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(b) Convert your answer in question 1. (a), into hexadecimal number. Show your working.

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(c) Convert your answer in question 1. (b) Into denary (decimal) number. Show your working.

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2 Sarah uses a company which offers the following Internet broadband transfer rates:
• 64 mebibits/second DOWNLOAD speed
• 32 mebibits/second UPLOAD speed
(a) She has decided to upload 40 photographs onto her social networking website. Each photograph is 4
mebibytes in size. How long would it take to upload her photographs? Show all your working. (40
seconds)
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(b) If each music track is 2 mebibytes in size, how long would it take Sarah to download 50 tracks? Show
your working. (12.5 seconds)
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3 John has bought a 4 Gibibyte MP3 player.

We can assume that each song lasts 4 minutes and is recorded at 120 kibibits per second.

a. How much memory is required per song? Show it in Mebibytes up to 2 decimal places. Show your

working. (3.52 MiB / song)

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b. Using your answer in (a.), how many songs can be stored on John’s MP3 player? Show your

working. Answer should be in whole number. (1164 songs)

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4 Fill up the boxes with the correct answer.
Question Answer

a) What is the denary (base 10)

equivalent to the hexadecimal
digit D?

b) If 1 TiB = 2x bytes then what

is the value of x?

c) The following binary number is

represented in two’s complement.
11101100
State the denary number

d) If the broadband data download rate

is 56 mebibits per second, how many
seconds will it take to download a 140
MiB file?

e) What is the denary (base 10)

value of the binary number

00011010?

f) How many bits are there in one

nibble?

g) Write down the one’s complement

for the following binary number:
10101101011
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7 The current status of the engine is sent to a computer in the airplane.

Each piece of data collected is 10 bytes in size. Data collection occurs every 15 seconds.

Calculate the number of kilobytes that would be needed to store the data collected during a 5-
hour flight. Show your working. (12 KB)

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8 (a) Find the denary -130 into 12 bits Two’s complement binary. Show your working

(b) The following number is represented in two’s complement. Find the equivalent denary.
Show your working.

10101111

(c) The following number is represented in two’s complement. Find the equivalent denary
number.

0101100101

(d) Find the denary -63 into 8 bits Two’s complement binary. Show your working

9 An image is made up of 2048 pixel by 1024 pixels. The image is made up of 50 colors. Find the
size of the image in Kibibyte.

An image is made up of 3000 pixel by 1000 pixels. The color depth for each pixel is 2 bytes. Find
the size of the image in Kilobyte.