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How do computers represent data?

• Digital information

• Binary numbers

• Bytes

• Bits

What is the basic unit of digital information?

• Binary numbers

• Digital information

• Bytes

• Bits

What is the term used to represent a sequence of 8 bits?

• Binary numbers

• Bits

• Bytes

• Digital information

What is the number system used by computers?

• Decimal system

• Octal system

• Binary system

• Hexadecimal system

What is the process of converting decimal numbers to binary called?

• Decimal representation

• Binary representation

• Decimal conversion

• Binary conversion

What are the limitations of storing numbers in computers?

• Number compression and decompression

• Number representation and conversion

• Number precision and accuracy

• Number limits, overflow, and roundoff

What is the term used to describe the process of reducing file size without losing data?

• Lossless compression

• File compression

• Lossy compression

• Data compression

What is the term used to describe the process of reducing file size by removing unnecessary data?

• Lossless compression

• Data compression

• Lossy compression

• File compression

Which of the following best describes how computing devices represent information?

• A computer will either represent information as bits or bytes but not both

• A computer represents data as a byte which is either a 0 or a 1

• A computer represents data as bits which is either a 0 or a 1

• A computer represents information as bits which contain 8 bytes.

Your computer uses 4 bits to represent decimal numbers (0, 1, 2, 3 and so on) in binary. What is the SMALLEST number for which an overflow error occur?

• 14

• 15

• 16

• 17