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10 IGCSE CS Chapter 1 Comprehensive For Boards Exam

This document provides a list of 30 questions related to binary, decimal, hexadecimal conversions and file compression techniques. It asks the reader to perform various conversions between binary, decimal and hexadecimal number systems. It also asks questions about sampling resolution, color depth, file sizes and compression methods like RLE, lossy and lossless compression. The document concludes by asking the reader to demonstrate run length encoding on a sample image.

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10 IGCSE CS Chapter 1 Comprehensive For Boards Exam

This document provides a list of 30 questions related to binary, decimal, hexadecimal conversions and file compression techniques. It asks the reader to perform various conversions between binary, decimal and hexadecimal number systems. It also asks questions about sampling resolution, color depth, file sizes and compression methods like RLE, lossy and lossless compression. The document concludes by asking the reader to demonstrate run length encoding on a sample image.

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1. Convert the binary number, 11101110, into a denary number.

2. Convert the following binary number, 011110001011, into a denary number.

3. Convert the following binary number, 0011000111100110, into a denary number.

4. Convert the denary number, 142, into binary.

5. Conversion of the denary number, 35 000, into a 16-bit binary number.

6. Convert the following binary numbers into hexadecimal:


a11000011
b11110111
c 100010011110
d 1111111101111101
e 00110011110101110

7. Convert the hexadecimal number, 4 5 A, into denary.

8. Convert the hexadecimal number, C 8 F, into denary.

9. Using software on your computer (for example, text colour option in Word), nd out what colours
would be represented by the following RGB denary value combinations:

a Red 53 Green 55 Blue 139

b Red 201 Green 122 Blue 204

c Red 12 Green 111 Blue 81

Also, Convert each of the above denary numbers into hexadecimal.


10. a Convert 126 and 62 into binary.
b Add the two binary values in part a and check the result matches the addition of the two denary
numbers

11. Add 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 and 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 (using 8 bits)

12. Write the denary number 200 as an 8-bit register. Show the result of a logical shift 2 places to
the left. Show the result of a logical shift 3 places to the right.

13. Convert −79 into an 8-bit binary number using two’s complement format.

14. What is the main disadvantage of ASCII code? Which system developed to combat this
disadvantage?

15. De ne sampling resolution and sampling rate.

16. State 2 advantages and 2 disadvantages of using a larger sampling resolution to record sound.

17. What is colour depth? How many colours will a pixel of a 8-bit colour depth have?
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18. A colour image is made up of red, green and blue colour combinations. 8 bits are used to
represent each of the colour components.
i How many possible variations of red are there?
ii How many possible variations of green are there?
iii How many possible variations of blue are there?
iv How many different colours can be made by varying the red, green and blue values?

19. A photograph is 1024 × 1080 pixels and uses a colour depth of 32 bits. How many photographs
of this size would t onto a memory stick of 64GiB?

20. A camera detector has an array of 2048 by 2048 pixels and uses a colour depth of 16. Find the
size of an image taken by this camera in MiB.

21. An audio CD has a sample rate of 44100 and a sample resolution of 16bits. The music being
sampled uses two channels to allow for stereo recording. Calculate the le size for a 60-minute
recording.

22. A camera detector has an array of 1920 by 1536 pixels. A colour depth of 16 bits is used.
Calculate the size of a photograph taken by this camera, giving your answer in MiB.

23. Photographs have been taken by a smartphone which uses a detector with a 1024 × 1536 pixel
array. The software uses a colour depth of 24bits. How many photographs could be stored on a
16GiB memory card?

24. Audio is being sampled at the rate of 44.1 kHz using 8 bits. Two channels are being used.
Calculate:
a the size of a one second sample, in bits
b the size of a 30-second audio recording in MiB.

25. The typical song stored on a music CD is 3minutes and 30seconds. Assuming each song is
sampled at 44.1 kHz (44 100 samples per second) and 16 bits are used per sample. Each song
utilises two channels.
Calculate how many typical songs could be stored on a 740MiB CD.

26. Give three bene ts of compressing the size of a le.

27. State three features of RLE and any one disadvantage of RLE.

28. How does lossy le compression work on music les?

29. How does lossy le compression work on images?

30. What is lossless le compression?

31. State type of compression for the following: pdf les, jpg, gif, png, mp3/mp4, excel

32. The following image is being developed:


Show how RLE would be used to produce a
compressed le for the above image. Write
down the data you would expect to see in the
RLE compressed format (you may assume
that the grey squares have a code value of 0 and the white squares
have a code value of 1).
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