ECE

171
Winter 2011
Homework 1 Solutions

1. [5] Use the subtract the weights or repeated radix division method to convert each of the
following decimal integers to binary.
a) 13
a) 1101
b) 35
b) 100011
c) 47
c) 101111
d) 74
d) 1001010
e) 165
e) 10100101
2. [5] Convert each of the following binary numbers to its equivalent hexadecimal representation
using the groups of 4 method.
a) 10000101
a) 85
b) 10010110
b) 96
c) 10110111
c) B7
d) 11011100
d) DC
e) 11111011
e) FB
3. [5] Convert each of the following hexadecimal numbers to its equivalent binary representation
using the groups of 4 method in reverse.
a) D
a) 1101
b) 1A
b) 0001 1010
c) 16
c) 0001 0110
d) 321
d) 0011 0010 0001
e) BEAD
e) 1011 1110 1010 1101
4. [10] Convert each of the following binary numbers to its equivalent octal and hexadecimal
representations.
a) 10000001
a) 8116 = 2018
b) 101010100
b) 15416 = 5248
c) 10001000.111
c) 88.E16 = 210.78
d) 1100001.1
d) 61.816 = 141.48
e) 110111.01
e) 37.416 = 67.28
5. [5] Convert each of the following hexadecimal numbers to its decimal equivalent using the
polynomial function method.
a) 1516
a) 2110
b) B216
b) 17810
c) 10D16
c) 26910
d) EE16
d) 23810
e) 7C16
e) 12410

6. [5] Fill in the table below

20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
210

Decimal
1
2
4
8
16
32
64
128
256
512
1024

Binary
1
10
100
1000
10000
100000
1000000
10000000
100000000
1000000000
10000000000

Octal
1
2
4
10
20
40
100
200
400
1000
2000

Hexadecimal
1
2
4
8
10
20
40
80
100
200
400

7. [5] Construct a table showing the hexadecimal numbers between 00 and 20 and their
corresponding binary equivalents.
Hexadecimal
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
0A
0B
0C
0D
0E
0F
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
1A
1B
1C
1D
1E
1F
20

Binary
0000 0000
0000 0001
0000 0010
0000 0011
0000 0100
0000 0101
0000 0110
0000 0111
0000 1000
0000 1001
0000 1010
0000 1011
0000 1100
0000 1101
0000 1110
0000 1111
0001 0000
0001 0001
0001 0010
0001 0011
0001 0100
0001 0101
0001 0110
0001 0111
0001 1000
0001 1001
0001 1010
0001 1011
0001 1100
0001 1101
0001 1110
0001 1111
0010 0000

8. [6] Convert the decimal number 0.625 to its binary, octal, and hexadecimal equivalents.
0.62510 = 0.1012 = 0.58 = 0.A16
9. [6] Convert the decimal number 13.9 to its binary, octal, and hexadecimal equivalents.

13.910 = 1101.1110011002 = 15.714638 = D.E616

Note: The underscored fractional portion of the binary equivalent repeats. Because the original
decimal number is given to a single decimal of precision, or one part in 10, we only require the
same of the binary number, or one part in about 16 (about 4 bits).

Acceptable answers for octal and hexadecimal depend upon the number of binary bits youre
considering and whether you considered the repeating pattern.