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Question 1

Section 1: Software design and development, and Computer systems

A leaderboard shows teams and their scores.

PositionTeamScore
1Harry Putter81
2Par Tee79
3Sandy77

(a) A computer system stores the scores as binary numbers. Convert the denary number 79 to an 8‑bit binary number.

1 mark

(b) A computer system stores the team names using extended ASCII code.

Calculate the number of bits required to store the team name:

Par Tee

1 mark