IT 101, Spring 2014

Homework 1
1. (10pts) Read the article found at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p025p9ff
Write a paragraph (around 6 sentences) providing your opinion about both the technology and the
impact on society.




2. (4pts) Do the following base conversions. You must show your work for full credit.
a. Convert the binary number 11001101 to decimal



b. Convert the binary number 1100110110 to hexadecimal



c. Convert the decimal number 83 to binary



d. Convert the hexadecimal number 7D1A to binary



3. (6pts) Consider a field containing 5 bits.
a. What is the smallest unsigned integer that can be represented by this field?



b. What is the largest unsigned integer that can be represented by this field?



c. How many possible values can be represented by this field?



4. (6pts) The Starship Enterprise is visiting a planet where the inhabitants have 8 fingers. Not surprisingly,
they use a base 8 numbering system. The planet provides a beam-down coordinate of 4073 (in base 8).
Translate this to base 10 so the crew can safely go on shore leave.



5. (12pts) Look up the ASCII and ANSI (8-bit ASCII) representations. Provide both the binary and
decimal values for the following characters:
Character ASCII ANSI
g





G





(some old typewriters
had a key for the fraction
one half)




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6. (6pts) The following message is encoded in ASCII using eight bits per symbol. What does it say? (Hint:
There are 46 characters including spaces and punctuation. Use correct capitalization for full credit.)


01001000 01101001 00100001 00100000 01001100 01100101 01110100 00100000 01101101


01100101 00100000 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 00100000 01101001 01100110


00100000 01001001 01010100 00110001 00110000 00110001 00100000 01101001 01110011


00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101


00100000 01100101 01111000 01110000 01100101 01100011 01110100 01100101 01100100


00101110




7. (6pts) The following are parity questions
a. Assume even parity and add a parity bit to 11011101


b. Is the following data plus parity bit correct for odd parity? Why or why not? 011011010


c. Is the following data plus parity bit correct for odd parity? Why or why not? 111001011


EXTRA CREDIT (2pts): Correctly naming and submitting your homework as described in Moodle.