Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will grasp what binary digits are by associating them with familiar sets of symbols such as letters and decimal digits. We will solve simple problems that reinforce the connection between (alphanumeric) information and its binary representation.

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7 Questions

Q1.
What is ASCII?
An image in a quiz
Correct answer: ASCII is a coding scheme that represents every character as a sequence of 0s and 1s
ASCII is a coding scheme used to determine your bandwidth
ASCII is an 8-bit coding scheme
Q2.
What is the length of this sequence: "slide"?
3 letters long
Correct answer: 5 letters long
6 letters long
Q3.
How many different characters can be encoded using 7 bits?
Correct answer: 128 different 7-bit sequences
164 different 7-bit sequences
256 different 7-bit sequences
Q4.
How many different character are there with an 8-bit coding scheme?
128 different characters
Correct answer: 256 different characters
64 different characters
Q5.
How many binary digits does it take to represent the message: Great work!
Correct answer: 77 bits
88 bits
99 bits
Q6.
How many 3-bit numbers can there possibly be?
16
256
Correct answer: 8
Q7.
How many 1-bit sequences can there possibly be?
Correct answer: 2
4
6