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U1L05 Activity Guide - Binary Practice v2

This document provides practice with binary and decimal number conversions. It includes tables to fill in the binary and decimal equivalents of 4-bit and 8-bit numbers. It also gives conversion practice problems and questions about patterns in binary numbers and how many bits are needed to count to certain numbers.

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U1L05 Activity Guide - Binary Practice v2

This document provides practice with binary and decimal number conversions. It includes tables to fill in the binary and decimal equivalents of 4-bit and 8-bit numbers. It also gives conversion practice problems and questions about patterns in binary numbers and how many bits are needed to count to certain numbers.

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Unit 1 Lesson 5

Name(s)________________________________________ Period ______ Date ________________

Activity Guide - Binary Practice

Directions
Using your Flippy Do or the binary odometer widget fill in the following charts and answer the following
questions.

All 4-bit numbers


It’s useful and handy to have a sense of the sixteen 4-bit numbers. Fill in all of the 4-bit numbers in the
table below along with their decimal equivalents, in order. We’ve started the first three for you.

Binary: 4-bit number Decimal Binary: 4-bit number Decimal

0000 0
0001 1
0010 2

8-bit numbers with exactly one 1


The table below contains every 8-bit number that has exactly one 1 in it. Write down the decimal
equivalent next to each one. Do you notice a pattern?

Binary: 8-bit number Decimal Binary: 8-bit number Decimal


(with exactly one 1) (with exactly one 1)

0000 0001 1 0001 0000


0000 0010 2 0010 0000
0000 0100 0100 0000
0000 1000 1000 0000

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Conversion Practice!
Using your own binary skills (aided by the flippy do or binary odometer) fill in the decimal and binary
equivalents below.

What’s the Decimal Number? What’s the Binary Number?


Binary Decimal Binary Decimal

100 5
101 17
1101 63
0001 1111 64
0010 0000 127
1010 1010 256*
1111 1111 513*

NOTE: a short binary number like 101 is assumed to have *NOTE: 256 and 513 exceed the capacity of the flippy-do
leading 0s for all the other bits, like: 00000101. Typically large but you can work it logically following what you know
binary numbers are grouped in 4-bit chunks to improve about patterns with binary numbers.
readability, for example: 0110 0101 1010

Questions:

1. There is a simple pattern for determining if a binary number is odd. What is it and why does this
pattern occur?

2. How many bits would you need if you wanted to have the ability to count up to 1000?

3. How high could you count in binary if you used all 10 of your fingers as bits? (finger up means 1,
finger down means 0)

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