PHW: Hardware & Binary

Exploring Hardware

Fill in the following blanks with: motherboard, processor, memory, hard drive:

1. variables are stored in/on ____
2. the ____ executes program statements
3. when a program is not being executed, it resides in/on ____
4. a ____ connects all the components of a computer with a bus

Binary Encoding

1. How many pieces of information can be conveyed with a single bit?
2. How many bits would you need to represent each of the 50 United States using a unique permutation of bits?
3. How many bits are in a byte?
4. What is the binary representation of the number 33?
5. What is the decimal representation of the number 110011?
6. Name one encoding standard used to convert text into ordinal numbers?