A-level

Subject Code:9618

1 Anya scans an image into her computer for a school project.

(a) The scanned image is bitmapped.
(i) Complete the following table to describe the two terms about graphics.

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(ii) The image is scanned with an image resolution of 1024 × 512 pixels and a colour depth of 8
bits per pixel.
Calculate an estimate for the file size, giving your answer in mebibytes. Show your working.

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Answer .......................................... mebibytes
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(b) The image is compressed using lossless compression.
Identify one method of lossless compression that can be used to compress the image and
describe how the
method will reduce the file size.
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(c) One of the colours used in the image has the hexadecimal colour code:
#FC238A
FC is the amount of red, 23 is the amount of green and 8A is the amount of blue in the colour.
(i) Convert the hexadecimal code FC into
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(ii) The amount of green in binary is 00100011. This has the denary number 15 added to it to
create a second colour.
Add the denary number 15 to the binary number 00100011 and give your answer in binary.
Perform the addition in binary.
Show your working.
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(iii) Hexadecimal 23 in two’s complement representation is 00100011.The denary number 10

needs to be
subtracted from this value.
Subtract the denary number 10 from the two’s complement representation 00100011. Give your
answer in binary.
Show your working.

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Computers store data in binary form. (a) State the difference between a tebibyte and a terabyte.

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(b) Convert the signed denary value –100 into an 8-bit two’s complement binary integer.

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(c) Convert the denary number 251 into hexadecimal.

Show your working.

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(d) Add the following unsigned binary integers. 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 + 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0

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(ii) Calculate an estimate for the file size of the section of the bitmap image shown, giving
your answer in bytes.
(iii) Use your answer from part (b)
(i). Show your working.

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(c) Describe how changing the colour depth of an image affects its file size.
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Convert the denary numbers 127 and 12 to 8-bit binary and then perform the subtraction 12 −
127 in binary.
Show your working.
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Describe how lossless compression can be used to reduce the file size of a text file.
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(iv) Explain why lossy compression should not be used on a text file.
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