Question: 2

Question

How many bits are used to encode a character according to the ASCII encoding scheme?

2 bits
(ex: 10 encodes ‘A’)

4 bits
(ex: 1011 encodes ‘A’)

6 bits
(ex: 10 0110 encodes ‘A’)

8 bits
(ex: 0100 0001 encodes ‘A’)

Answer 1

8 bits (ex: 0100 0001 encodes ‘A’)