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5. a How many mebibytes (MiB) of storage would be needed to store 800 photographs each of
which are 16 MiB in size? [3]
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Write down the contents of the 8-bit register after the bits, representing “q”', have been moved
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8. Convert the following two denary numbers into 8-bit binary numbers which use the two’s
complement format.
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9. Convert the following two binary numbers, written in two’s complement format, into denary.
i 11001110 [2]
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10. A camera detector has an array of 4096 by 2048 pixels and uses a colour depth of 16.
a. Calculate the size of an image taken by this camera; give your answer in MiB. [4]
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11. Explain the difference between lossy and lossless file compression. [4]
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12. Explain the following terms used in the electronic storage of sound: [4]
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13. Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of increasing the sampling rate and sampling
resolution when representing sound in an electronic (binary) format. [4]
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15. Give three reasons why it is often necessary to reduce the size of a file. [3]
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17. Explain the difference between ASCII code and Unicode. [4]
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