EXERCISES, LESSON 1
INSTRUCTIONS. The following exercises are to be answered by marking the lettered
response that best answers the question or best completes the incomplete statement or
by writing the answer in the space provided.
After you have completed all the exercises, turn to, "Solutions to Exercises" at
the end of the lesson and check your answers.
1
Early computers, such as ENIAC, were cumbersome and unreliable, in part,
because they made use of:
a. The binary system.
b. Transistors.
c.
Modems.
d. The decimal system.
2.
By digitizing input, a computer takes information and translates it into:
a. Binary digits.
b. Kilobytes.
c.
Periodic measurements.
d. Sound waves.
3.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz sought to transpose rational thinking into precise
_________________________ terms.
a. Lyrical.
b. Computerized.
c.
Mathematical.
d. Individual.
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