ELEC 1510 Homework 1, Fall 2016

Student Name:___________________________________
Instructions: You must show your work (where appropriate) to receive credit. A correct answer with no
work shown will receive zero points. Your writing must be neat as well to receive credit. Draw a box
around your final answer. Failure to follow instructions will result in a loss of points.
Homework 1 grading: Not all problems will be graded for correctness. Some problems will be chosen at
random and graded for correctness.
All problems relate to course learning outcome 3.

Problem
Correctness
Following Instructions &
Neatness
Total

Points Possible
35
5
40

Points Earned

1. What are the counting digits (numerals) of the following number systems?
Example: The counting digits of a base 2 (binary number system) are 0, 1
The counting digits of a base 10 (decimal) number system are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
a. Base 5
b. Base 8
2. What values in a base 4 and a base 9 number system are equivalent to 10102?

3. Convert to hexadecimal and then convert the hexadecimal number to binary. Show your work.
a.
b.
c.
d.

757.2510
123.1710
356.8910
1063.510

4. Convert to octal. Convert to hexadecimal. Then convert both of your octal and hexadecimal
answers to decimal and verify they are the same. Show your work. Clearly label your answers as
to which are octal, hexadecimal, and decimal.
a. 111010110001.0112
b. 10110011101.112

5. Add, subtract, and multiply in binary: (subtract the smaller number from the larger) Show your
work.
a. 1111 and 1010
b. 110110 and 11101
c. 100100 and 10110

6. Convert the following decimal numbers to octal, from octal to binary, and from binary to
hexadecimal.
d. 2983 63/64
e. 93.70
f. 1900 31/32
g. 109.30

7. Unique numbers.
a. How many unique binary numbers can be formed with 7 bits?
b. How many unique base 3 numbers can be formed with 7 digits?
c. How many unique octal numbers can be formed with 7 digits?
d. How many unique octal numbers can be formed with 7 bits?
e. How many unique decimal numbers can be formed with 7 digits?
f. How many unique hexadecimal numbers can be formed with 7 bits?

8. Range of numbers
a. What is the range of unsigned decimal numbers that can be represented with 3 octal
digits?
b. What is the range of unsigned binary numbers that can be represented with 3 octal
digits?
c. What is the range of unsigned binary numbers that can be represented with 3
hexadecimal digits?
d. What is the range of unsigned decimal numbers that can be represented with 10 bits?
9. Convert the following decimal numbers to binary.
a. 3210
b. 3310
c. 6310
d. 6410
e. 25710
f. 102310
g. 0.110
h. 15.062510
i. 0.187510
j. 0.0710