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SECTION A (20 MARKS)

ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS

1. Convert 651.1248 to hexadecimal.

(A) 1A9.2A16
(B) 1109.21016
(C) 209.3016
(D) 19A.2A16
(1 mark)
2. Convert the binary number 10111010.1110 to decimal.
(A) 184.875
(B) 185.875
(C) 168.875
(D) 186.875
(1 mark)
3. A call centre implemented portal for their customers to make payment. This portal
designed with background color with hexadecimal color code 5A. Find the color code
which is stored in 8-bit register.
(A) 101101002
(B) 110110102
(C) 010110102
(D) 010101102
(1 mark)
4. The binary equivalent of hexadecimal DB.9E is,
(A) 10110111.11100002
(B) 11011011.10011112
(C) 11101011.10011102
(D) 11011111.10011012
(1 mark)
5. Find the value of 1100111.1112 − 1010101.1012 = X2
(A) 10010.01
(B) 11010.01
(C) 101101.10
(D) 110011.01
(1 mark)
6. Convert 3462.428 to binary.
(A) 10101110110.101012
(B) 11100110010.100012
(C) 11101110010.101012
(D) 10101110010.110012
(1 mark)
7. Find the value of 246.578 + 357. 18 =
(A) 625.678
(B) 635.768
(C) 1625.768
(D) 1635.678
(1 mark)

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8. Find is the 2’s complement of –1810 in 8-bit representation.

(A) 110111002
(B) 111011002
(C) 101011102
(D) 111011102
(1 mark)
9. Find the decimal equivalent of the 8-bit binary number 11110011 in 1’s complement
form.
(A) 12
(B) 486
(C) -12
(D) -486
(1 mark)
10. Find the 1’s complement of 11010010.
(A) 101011012
(B) 001011012
(C) 001001012
(D) 111011012
(1 mark)
11. Find 101010112 -011100012 using 2’s complement in 8-bit register.
(A) 110111010
(B) 100111010
(C) 00111010
(D) 00110010
(2 marks)
12. Given 𝐴1. 𝐵16 + 32. 428 = 𝑋2. Find the value of X.
(A) 11111110.001112
(B) 10111100.001112
(C) 10010111.011102
(D) 11011110.100012
(2 marks)
13. 𝐷𝐶𝐵𝐴. 7𝐴16 + 4𝐴𝐶. 2𝐸16 =𝑋16. Find the value of X.
(A) E166.A8
(B) D066.A8C
(C) D166.A2
(D) E166.A28
(2 marks)
14. A duration of a film show is recorded in 2 hours 39 minutes. Both hour and minutes is
represented in 8-bit register. Identify the binary representation for 2 hours 39 minutes.
(A) 00000001 hour, 00000111 minutes.
(B) 00000011 hour, 00100111 minutes.
(C) 00000001 hour, 01000101 minutes.
(D) 00000010 hour, 00100111 minutes.
(2 marks)
15. Given 35.4316 − 11001.1102 = 𝑋8. Find the value of X.
(A) 43.468
(B) 34.468
(C) 33.4068
(D) 33.4668
(2 marks)

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SECTION B (30 MARKS)

ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS

QUESTION B1 (15 Marks)

(a) Using 2’s complement in 8-bit register, llustrate the steps of evaluating the following
arithmetic operation by the computer. Indicate if an overflow occurs.
3310  3310 .
(5 marks)
(b) A computer stores a number in a 16-bit register using floating-point representation.
Given that the first bit is reserved for the sign, followed by 6 bits for the exponent with
a bias of (+31) and the remaining bits are the mantissa as a hidden bit.
(i) Show the floating-point representation of 38.75 in computer storage.
(6 marks)
(ii) Find the equivalent decimal value for the below floating-point representation.
0100 0010 1100 0000
Formula: (1) S  (1  M )  2E  B
(4 marks)
QUESTION B2 (15 Marks)

(a) A cable TV company has established a new online customer support service to help the
customers on any matter related to the company’s products. The company wants to
investigate the effectiveness of the new customer support service by selecting a sample
of 75 customers using the information available from the database.

The categories of products and the number of customers subscribing each category are
summarised in Table 1.

Category of products Number of Customers

Movies 40
Sports 27
News 32
Movies and Sports 10
Movies and News 9
News and Sports 8
All three 3
Table 1: Customer support survey

(i) Use M, S and N to represent the category of products such as Movies, Sports
and News respectively. Draw a Venn diagram to represent the above data.
(3 marks)
(ii) Find the number of customers who subscribe at least two products.
(1 mark)
(b) Determine whether each of the following statement is true or false.
(i) 0  {}
(ii) {3,6,9,12,15}  {x | x  N ,1  x  20, x is a multiple of 3}
(iii) {0, 2,5, 7,11}  {Hexadecimal number system}
(3 marks)

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(c) The universal set U and its subsets A and B are defined as follows.
U = {x: x is an odd positive integer less than or equal to 15}
A = {x: x is a multiple of 3 greater than 4}
B = {x: x is a prime number less than 12}
(i) Determine the elements of U, A, and B.
(3 marks)
(ii) From part (c) (i), show that A  B  B ' A .
(4 marks)
(iii) Find the cardinality of power set P (B).
(1 mark)

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