Fluency With Information Technology 6th Edition Lawrence Snyder Solutions Manual

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Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts and Capabilities, 6th Edition
Instructor Solutions Manual
Chapter 7: Representing Information Digitally - Bits and the “Why” of Bytes

Questions Answers

Multiple Choice Multiple Choice

1. How many symbols can be represented by four 1. b

bits? 2. b
a. 12 3. d
b. 16 4. c
c. 36 5. c
d. 256 6. b
2. PandA representation is what kind of system? 7. b
a. deicimal
b. binary
c. hexadecimal
d. byte
3. What was used to help structure the digitized
Oxford English Dictionary?
a. bytes
b. sets
c. ASCII
d. tags
4. This defines how characters relate to each other
when they are compared.
a. digitizing
b. binary sequence
c. collating sequence
d. information representation
5. When using physical phenomena to encode
information, name one potential solution if there
are more than two alternatives.
a. There is no solution
b. adopt them all as present
c. adopt one as present and all the other
alternatives as absent
d. adopt them all as absent
6. Information describing information is called
a. special information
b. metadata
c. special-data
d. formatting
7. K bits in a sequence yield how many symbols?
a.
b.
c.
d.

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Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts and Capabilities, 6th Edition
Instructor Solutions Manual
Chapter 7: Representing Information Digitally - Bits and the “Why” of Bytes

Short Answer Short Answer

1. PandA is short for ________. 1. present and absent

2. ________ encode information on DVDs and 2. bumps or pits
CDs. 3. 16
3. Hexadecimal is base ________. 4. hex
4. Grouping binary digits in groups of four names 5. PandA
converting to ________ easier. 6. discrete
5. ________ is the name we use for the two 7. base, radix
fundamental patterns of digital information based 8. encoded
on the presence and absence of a phenomenon. 9. digitizing
6. Information is said to be ________, or distinct;
there is no gray
7. The number of digits is the ________ or the
________ of the numbering system.
8. The more symbols you want, the more
________ you need.
9. ________ is representing information with
symbols.

Exercises Exercises

1. Make a list of the numbers you use that are not 1. Many possible answers
treated as numbers (e.g., phone numbers). 2. Many possible answers
2. Create a list of ten different PandA encodings 3. 00101000 00111000
that are different from those presented in this 00110000 00110000
chapter. 00101001 00110101
3. Encode (800) 555-0012 in ASCII, including 00110101 00110101
punctuation. 00101101 00110000
4. This chapter mentions that it does not matter 00110000 00110001
whether 0 represents present or absent. Explain 00110010
in detail why this is the case. 4. As long as the system is
5. Translate the following hexadecimal into binary consistent it is not important
and then into ASCII. 68 65 78 61 64 65 63 69 6D what symbols represent
61 6C present and absent.
6. Encode the following ISBN number in ASCII: 5. 01101000 01100101
978-3-16-148410-0 01111000 01100001
7. You have discovered the following string of 01100100 01100101
binary ASCII code; figure out what they mean 01100011 01101001
01010111 01100001 01111001 00100000 01101101 01100001
01110100 01101111 00100000 01100111 01101100; hexadecimal
01101111 00100001 6. 00111001 00110111
8. Explain the relationship between the number D 00111000 00101101
and 00110011 00101101
00110001 00110110
00101101 00110001

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Fluency With Information Technology 6th Edition Lawrence Snyder Solutions Manual

Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts and Capabilities, 6th Edition
Instructor Solutions Manual
Chapter 7: Representing Information Digitally - Bits and the “Why” of Bytes

00110100 00111000
00110100 00110001
00110000 00101101
9. 00110000
10. Explain why radio broadcasters use longer 7. Way to go!
encoding to transmit information. 8. They can both be
11. Explain why the NATO broadcast alphabet represented in binary as
represents digitization. Then explain why it was 0010
designed to be minimal. 9. Improves the chances
12. Explain how Buchholz created a error-detecting letters will be recognized
name for the memory unit when spoken under less-
13. Without meta-data why would it be hard to than-ideal conditions
search for “set” in a digitized dictionary? 10. It has words that represent
letters, which creates the
digitization. It is designed to
not be minimal to ensure
that messages are heard
correctly.
11. “It seemed that after ‘bit’
comes ‘bite.’ But we
changed the ‘i’ to a ‘y’ so
that a typist couldn’t
accidentally change ‘byte’
into ‘bit’ by the single error
of dropping the ‘e’.
12. Searching for “set” would
return many occurrences
since it is used frequently in
definitions of other words

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