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Hexa decimal .ict

The document outlines an A Level OCR Computer Science exam consisting of 10 marks divided into 4 questions, with 2 easy questions worth 2 marks and 2 hard questions worth 8 marks. Topics covered include various data types, binary conversions, and floating point representations. Students are required to convert numbers between different formats and demonstrate their working for calculations.

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A Level OCR Computer Science 10 mins 4 questions

Exam Questions

4.1 Data Types


Primitive Data Types / Positive Binary Numbers / Negative Binary Numbers / Binary
Addition & Subtraction / Hexadecimal Numbers / Floating Point Binary Numbers /
Floating Point Addition & Subtraction / Bitwise Manipulation & Masks / Character
Sets

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Easy (2 questions) /2

Hard (2 questions) /8

Total Marks /10

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Easy Questions
1 Convert the denary number 189 to hexadecimal.

(1 mark)

2 Convert the unsigned binary number 1010101111 to hexadecimal.

(1 mark)

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Hard Questions
1 The normalised floating point binary number 0100 1110 is stored using 4 bits for the
mantissa and 4 bits for the exponent, both in two’s complement.

Convert this number to denary.

You must show your working.

(3 marks)

2 Show how the denary value −9.125 can be represented in normalised floating point
format, using 8 bits for the mantissa and 4 bits for the exponent, both in two’s
complement.

(5 marks)

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