Understanding Computers

Worksheet 4
Task 1

Transfer all the numbers from the cloud into the table. Put them in order, starting with the smallest
number first in the unit’s column. The first example has been done for you. Each number should be
placed in a separate row.

10
349 1010
48563
9 85
7021

2568 999 10101

Ten
thousand Thousands Hundreds Tens Units
s

9
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Worksheet 4: Binary to Denary Conversion

Challenge 1: For each of the binary values below, write down the decimal
equivalent. Use the grid below to help you. Start from Number 4 and make
sure you start from right to left.

1) 101
2) 10111
3) 111011
4) 11001001
5) 11101010

128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 Decimal

1 1 0 = 6
1 0 1 =
1 0 1 1 1 =
1 1 1 0 1 1 =
=
=
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Challenge 2: For each of the decimal values below, write down the binary
equivalent. The first example has been done for you. Remember that you can
only use each number once.

1) 14
2) 51
3) 121
4) 174
5) 255
128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 Decimal

0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 = 14
= 51
= 121
= 174
= 255

Challenge 3: What do you think might happen with values above 255? Think of
the numbers that we have been using so far to make up the binary numbers.
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Challenge 4: Revise and then complete the BBC Bite size quiz on binary
numbers. Record your score out of 10.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zwsbwmn/test

/10
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Binary to Denary Conversion Homework

To convert binary into decimal is very simple and can be done as shown below:

Say we want to convert the 8 bit value 10011101 into a denary value; we can use a
formula like that below:

128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1
1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1

As you can see, we have placed the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 (powers of two)
in reverse numerical order, and then written the binary value below.

To convert, you simply take a value from the top row wherever there is a 1 below, and
then add the values together.

For instance, in our example we would have 128 + 16 + 8 + 4 + 1 = 157.

Now convert the following binary numbers to denary.

Answer
10101001 =

00110010 =

00111000 =

11101110 =

11100001 =

00101101 =

00011000 =

11010110 =

01110010 =

10000011 =
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Denary to Binary Conversion Homework

Now convert the following denary numbers to binary:

12
64 32 16 8 4 2 1
8

28 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0

17

67

42

134

88

33

12

180

170

255
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Decimal Binary Character Decimal Binary Character Decimal Binary Character

32 00100000 space 64 00100000 @ 96 01000000 '

33 00100001 ! 65 00100001 A 97 01000001 a
34 00100010 " 66 00100010 B 98 01000010 b
35 00100011 £ 67 00100011 C 99 01000011 c
36 00100100 $ 68 00100100 D 100 01000100 d
37 00100101 % 69 00100101 E 101 01000101 e
38 00100110 & 70 00100110 F 102 01000110 f
39 00100111 ' 71 00100111 G 103 01000111 g
40 00101000 ( 72 00101000 H 104 01001000 h
41 00101001 ) 73 00101001 I 105 01001001 i
42 00101010 * 74 00101010 J 106 01001010 j
43 00101011 + 75 00101011 K 107 01001011 k
44 00101100 , 76 00101100 L 108 01001100 l
45 00101101 - 77 00101101 M 109 01001101 m
46 00101110 . 78 00101110 N 110 01001110 n
47 00101111 / 79 00101111 O 111 01001111 o
48 00110000 0 80 00110000 P 112 01010000 p
49 00110001 1 81 00110001 Q 113 01010001 q
50 00110010 2 82 00110010 R 114 01010010 r
51 00110011 3 83 00110011 S 115 01010011 s
52 00110100 4 84 00110100 T 116 01010100 t
53 00110101 5 85 00110101 U 117 01010101 u
54 00110110 6 86 00110110 V 118 01010110 v
55 00110111 7 87 00110111 W 119 01010111 w
56 00111000 8 88 00111000 X 120 01011000 x
57 00111001 9 89 00111001 Y 121 01011001 y
58 00111010 : 90 00111010 Z 122 01011010 z
59 00111011 ; 91 00111011 [ 123 01011011 {
60 00111100 < 92 00111100 \ 124 01011100 |
61 00111101 = 93 00111101 ] 125 01011101 }
62 00111110 > 94 00111110 ^ 126 01011110 ~
63 00111111 ? 95 00111111 _ 127 01011111 del
ASCII Codes