Chapter-3

BINARY NUMBER

PRACTICE SHEET
1. The decimal equivalent of (101011)2 is: 12. What is (1111)2 + (1001)2  (1010)2 equal to?
(a) (43)10 (b) (59)10 (a) (111)2 (b) (1100)2
(c) (47)10 (d) None of these (c) (1110)2 (d) (1010)2
2. 100101 + 101 + 1101 + 100 is equal to: 13. The difference of two numbers (1100110011)2
(a) 1101001 (b) 100000 and (1101001011)2 in binary system is:
(c) 111011 (d) None of these (a) (100000)2 (b) (101010)2
(c) (11000)2 (d) (10111)2
3. What is the decimal number representation of
the binary number (11101.001)2? 14. The maximum three digit integer in the decimal
(a) 30.125 (b) 29.025 system will be represented in the binary system
(c) 29.125 (d) 28.025 by which one o the following?
(a) (1111110001)2 (b) (111111110)2
4. Binary fraction 0.1011 in decimal system is:
(c) (1111100111)2 (d) (1111000111)2
(a) 0.6875 (b) 0.8675
(c) 0.7685 (d) None of these 15. What is (1111)2 + (1001)2  (1010)2 equal to?
(a) (111)2 (b) (1100)2
5. The decimal number 0.77 in binary system is:
(c) (1110)2 (d) (1010)2
(a) (0.1100101)2 (b) (0.11000101)2
(c) (0.10100101)2 (d) None of these 16. What is the binary number equivalent of the
decimal number 32.25?
6. The binary number 10110100001 in decimal
(a) 100010.10 (b) 100000.10
system is:
(c) 100010.01 (d) 100000.01
(a) 441 (b) 1441
(c) 1241 (d) 241 17. What is the equivalent binary number of the
decimal number 13.625?
7. The complement of (1011100)2 is:
(a) 1101.111 (b) 1111.101
(a) (1010100)2 (b) (0111100)2
(c) 1101.101 (d) 1111.111
(c) (0100011)2 (d) (1000011)2
18. The number 0.0011 in binary system
8. 2’s complement of (1011001100)2 is:
represents?
(a) (0100110100)2 (b) (0100110010)2
(a)Rational number 3/8 in decimal system
(c) (0100110101)2 (d) (0100110111)2
(b)Rational number 1/8 in decimal system
9. What is the decimal equivalent of (101.101)2? (c)Rational number 3/16 in decimal system
(a) (5.225)10 (b) (5.525)10 (d)Rational number 5/16 in decimal system
(c) (5.625)10 (d) (5.65)10
19. When is the value of:
10. If the sum of the binary numbers (11011)2,
 0.1012    0.0112 
11 2
11 2

(10110110)2 and (10011x0y)2 is the binary

 0.1012
10 2  01  01 10
number (101101101)2, then the values of x and   0.1012  0.0112   0.0112
2 2 2

y respectively, are:
(a) (0.001)2 (b) (0.01)2
(a) 1 and 1 (b) 1 and 0
(c) (0.1)2 (d) (1)2
(c) 0 and 1 (d) 0 and 0
20. If x=(1101)2 and y = (110)2, then what is the
11. What is the value of X, if (1010)2  (111)2 = (X)10?
value of x2  y2?
(a) 60 (b) 70
(a) (1000101)2 (b) (10000101)2
(c) 75 (d) 80
(c) (10001101)2 (d) (10010101)2

ANSWER KEYS
1. a 2. c 3. c 4. a 5. b 6. b 7. c 8. a 9. c 10. b
11. b 12. c 13. c 14. c 15. c 16. d 17. c 18. c 19. d 20. b

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 Solutions
Sol. 1. (a) 1010 (0.25)10 = (10)2
(101011)2 = (?)10 111 (32.25)10 = (100000.01) 2
=[ 1  25 + 0  24 +1  23 + 0  22 + 1  21 ---------------
+ 1 20]10 1010 Sol. 17. (c)
=[32+0+8+0+2+1] 10 = (43)10 1010 For integer part of 13.625 i.e., (13)10
Sol. 2. (c) 1010 2 13 1
100101 ------------------ 2 6 0
+ 101 1000110 2 3 1
+ 1101 ------------------ 2 1 1
+ 100 (1000110)2 = (70)2 (13)10 = (1101)2
---------------------- Sol. 12. (c) For after decimal part of 32.625 i.e.,
=1110011 1111 (0.625)10
Sol. 3. (c) + 1001 Now,
(11101.001)2 = (?)10 --------------------- Binary
=[1  24 +1  23 + 1  22 + 0  21 + 1  20 11 0 0 0 0.625  2 = 1.25 1
+ 0  2-1 + 0  2-2 + 1  2-3]10 -1010 0.25  2 = 0.50 0
=[16+8+4+1+0.125] 10 = (29.125)10 ------------------------ 0.50  2 = 1.00 1
Sol. 4. (a) = 1110 (0.625)10 = (0.101)2
=[1  2-1 + 0  2-2 + 1  2-3+ 1  2-4]10 Sol. 13. (c) (13.625)10 = (1101.101)2
=11/16=0.6875 1101001011 Sol. 18. (c)
Sol. 5. (b) -1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1
(0.0011)2 = 21  0 + 22  0 + 23  1+
2 0.77 -------------------------
=11000 1 1 3
2 1.54 1 24  1 =  
2 1.08 1 Sol. 14. (c) 8 16 16
2 0.16 0 2 999 1
2 0.32 0 2 499 1
Sol. 19. (d)
2 0.64 0 2 249 1

1.28 1 2 124 0
 0.1012    0.0112 
10 2
11 2

0.56 0 2 62 0
10 2  01  01 10
1.12 1 2 31 1  0.1012   0.1012  0.0112   0.0112
2 2 2

(0.77)2 = (0.11000101) 10 2 15 1 3 3
Sol. 6. (b) 2 7 1  5  3
   
[1  210 +0  29 + 1  28 +1  27 +0  26 + 2 3 1 8 8
1 1 =
1  25 + 0  24 + 0  23 + 0  22 + 0  21 +
2 2
 5   5  3   3 
1  20]10 (999)2=(1111100111)2         
 8   8  8   8 
=[1024 + 256 + 128 + 32 + 1] = 1441 Sol. 15. (c)
Sol. 7. (c) 1111 = 5  3  8  1  1
complement of 1011100 is 0100011 + 1001 8 8 8 2

Sol. 8. (a) ------------ Sol. 20. (b)

1st complement of 1011001100 is = 11000 Given, x = (1101) 2 = 1  23 + 1  22 + 0 
0100110011 1010 21 + 1  20
2nd complement = 1st complement + 1 -------------- =8 + 4 + 1 = 13
= 0100110011 + 0100110100 = 1110 and y = (110)2 = 1  22 + 1  21 + 0  20
Sol. 9. (c) Sol. 16. (d) =4+2=6
(101.101)2 = (?)10 For integer part of 57.375 i.e., (57)10 x2  y2 = (13)2  (6)2 = 169  36 = 133
=1  22 + 0  21 + 1  20 + 1  2-1 + 0  2- 2 32 0 Now,
2 + 1  2-3]10 2 16 0
=[4+1+0.625] 10 = (5..625)10 2 8 0 2133
Sol. 10. (b) 2 4 0 266 1
11011 2 2 0 233 0
+ 10110110 1 1 216 1
+ 10011x0y (32)10 = (100000)2 28 0
--------------------- For after decimal part of 32.25 i.e., 24 0
101101101 (0.25)10 22 0
---------------------- Now, Binary 1 0
y = 0 ,x = 1 0.25  2 = 0.50 0 133= (10000101) 2
Sol. 11. (b) 0.50  2 = 1.00 1

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 NDA PYQ
1. The number 10101111 in binary system is 12. What is the sum of two numbers (11110)2 and
represented in decimal system by which one of (1010)2 ?
the following numbers? (a) (101000)2 (b) (110000)2
(a) 157 (b) 175 (c) (100100)2 (d) (101100)2
(c) 571 (d) 751 [NDA -2014(1)]
[NDA -2011 (1)] 13. What is (1001)2 equal to?
2. In the binary system of numbers let a = 00111 (a) (5)10 (b) (9)10
and b = 01110, then in decimal system what is (c) (17)10 (d) (11)10
b/a equal to? [NDA-2014(2)]
14. If (11101011)2 is converted to decimal system,
(a) 1 (b) 2
then the resulting number is:
(c) 4 (d) 5
(a) 235 (b) 175
[NDA-2011(1)]
(c) 160 (d) 126
3. In binary system decimal number 0.3 can be
[NDA – 2015(1)]
expressed as:
15. The decimal number (127.25)10 when converted
(a) (0.01001….)2 (b) (0.10110….)2
to binary number takes the form.
(c) (0.11001….)2 (d) (0.10101….)2
(a) (1111111.11)2 (b) (1111110.01)2
[NDA -2011(2)]
(c) (1110112.11)2 (d) (1111111.01)2
4. The number 292 in decimal system is expressed
[NDA-2015(1)]
in binary system by:
16. What is (1000000001)2 − (0.0101)2 equal to?
(a) 10001010 (b) 100010001
(a) (512.6775)10 (b) (512.6875)10
(c) 100100100 (d) 10101000
(c) (512.6975)10 (d) (512.0909)10
[NDA-2012(1)]
[NDA-2015(2)]
5. What is the decimal number representation of
17. What is the binary equivalent of the decimal
the binary number (11101.001)2?
number 0.3125?
(a) 30.125 (b) 29.025
(a) 0.0111 (b) 0.1010
(c) 29.125 (d) 28.025
(c) 0.0101 (d) 0.1101
[NDA-2012(1)]
[NDA (I) - 2016]
6. Convert the decimal number (57.375)10, into
18. If the number 235 in decimal system is
binary number
converted into binary system, then what is the
(a) (111001.011)2 (b) (100111.110)2
resulting number?
(c) (110011.101)2 (d) (111011.011)2
(a) (11110011)2 (b) (11101011)2
[NDA-2012(2)]
(c) (11110101)2 (d) (11011011)2
7. The decimal representation of the number
[NDA (II) - 2016]
(1011)2 in binary system is:
19. In the binary equation (1p101)2 + (10q1)2 = (100r
(a) 5 (b) 7
00)2 where p, q and r are binary digits, what are
(c) 9 (d) 11
the possible values of p,q and r respectively?
[NDA-2012(2)]
(a) 0,1,0 (b) 1,1,0
8. The binary representation of the decimal
(c) 0,0,1 (d) 1,0,1
number 45 is:
[NDA (I) - 2017]
(a) 110011 (b) 101010
20. The remainder and the quotient of the binary
(c) 110110 (d) 101101
division (101110)2 ÷(110)2 are respectively.
[NDA-2013(1)]
(a) (111)2 and (100)2 (b) (100)2 and (111)2
9. A number in binary system is 110001. It is equal
(c) (101)2 and (101)2 (d) (100)2 and (100)2
to which one of the following numbers in
[NDA (II) - 2017]
decimal system?
21. The binary number expression of the decimal
(a) 45 (b) 46
number 31 is:
(c) 48 (d) 49
(a) 1111 (b) 10111
[NDA-2013(2)]
(c) 11011 (d) 11111
10. The number 83 is written in the binary system
[NDA (I) - 2018]
as:
22. The sum of the binary numbers (11011)
(a) 100110 (b) 101101
(10110110)2 and (10011x0y)2 is the binary
(c) 1010011 (d) 110110
number (101101101)2. What are the value of x
[NDA-2013(2)]
and y ?
11. The number 251 in decimal system is expressed
(a) x = 1, y = 1 (b) x = 1, y = 0
in binary system by:
(c) x = 0, y = 1 (d) x = 0, y = 0
(a) 11110111 (b) 11111011
[NDA (II) - 2018]
(c) 11111101 (d) 11111110
[NDA-2014(1)]

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23. The binary number is represented by 26. If x3 + y3 = (100010111)2 and x + y= (11111)2
(cdccddcccddd)2, where c > d what is its decimal then what is (x – y)2 + xy equal to?
equivalent ? (a) (1101)2 (b) (1001)2
(a) 1848 (b) 2048 (c) (1011)2 (d) (1111)2
(c) 2842 (d) 2872 [NDA-2022 (I)]
[NDA (II) - 2019] 27. What is the binary number equivalent to decimal
24. The number (1101101 + 1011011)2 can be number 1011?
written in decimal system as (a) 1011 (b) 111011
(a) (198)2 (b) (199)2 (c) 11111001 (d) 1111110011
(c) (200)2 (d) (201)2 [NDA – 2023 (1)]
[NDA 2020]
25. What is (1110011)2  (10111)2 equal to?
(a) (101)2 (b) (1001)2
(c) (111)2 (d) (1011)2
[NDA-2022 (I)]

ANSWER KEY

1. b 2. b 3. a 4. c 5. c 6. a 7. d 8. d 9. d 10. c
11. b 12. a 13. b 14. a 15. d 16. b 17. c 18. b 19. a 20. a

21. d 22 b 23. d 24. c 25. a 26. b 27. d

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