Lesson 1 worksheet

Convert the following denary to 8 bit unsigned binary and show your working

39

00100111

83

01010011

111

01101111

Convert the following 8 bit unsigned binary to denary and show your working

01110111

119

11110010

242

01011101

93

Convert the following unsigned binary to hex and show your working

01010111

57

11110001

F1

00011110

1E

011010010011

693

Convert the following hex to binary

AC

10101101

101

100000001

976
100101110110

Convert the following hex to denary

DA

218

33

51

B6

182

Convert the following denary to hex

87

57

228

E4

33

21

59

3B

Character sets

Give 2 similarities between ASCII and UNICODE

Both are standards used for encoding text

Give 2 differences between ASCII and UNICODE

ASCII only able to represent 256 character, while UNICODE is able to represent more than 149 000
characters

Research task

Find out how images are represented? Find out about bitmaps and vector graphics and make notes
here
Bitmaps, or raster as I know it, is a representation of images by pixels. Each point gets an assigned
place on the screen and this gets filled in with the desired colour. In vector images, anchor points are
used to draw a line that doesn’t get pixelated even when zoomed in.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of each image type?

Vector images don’t lose quality even when zoomed in, but they require more

How is sound represented in binary?

How does the sample rate affect the quality and file size?

Exam questions
Using the denary number 89 as an example, explain the relationship between binary and hexadecimal
representations.

Given that computers store everything in binary, explain how they are able to represent text and how a
system using Unicode could understand a message from another system using ASCII.

Variables in programs contain specific types of data.

The character ‘A’ in the ASCII character set is represented by the denary value 65. Write the binary
representation for the ASCII character ‘H’. Show your working.