Binary Numbers Practice
Description
Using your cards, figure out the base 10 numbers for the following base 2 (binary) numbers.
1. 10110101 = 181
2. 10100111 = 323
3. 11011010 = 218
4. 00010001 = 17
5. 11100101 = 229
Using your cards, figure out the binary numbers for these base 10 numbers.
1. 100 = 01100100
2. 68 = 01000100
3. 45 = 00101101
4. 13 = 00001101
5. 4 = 00000100
What base ten numbers are represented here?
9 10
5 13
0 17
2 20
0 31
Additional Questions:
1. Using your cards, count from 0 - 10. Do you see a pattern forming in how the cards are flipped? Try again if you
don’t see it and this time use your journal to take notes while you are flipping. What is the pattern or what do
you notice?
Every time a new number is introduced in consecutive order from left to right a new card is opened.
2. Using your cards, can you figure out a logical and reliable method of flipping the cards to increase any number
by one?
When increased by one start from the left and turn those cards over until you reach the number needed and
stop flipping cards.
3. What day of the month were you born in binary?
00011
01100
4. What is the largest number you can create with your cards?
31
5. If we continued adding cards to the left, how many dots would the next card have?
32
6. How about the next?
64
Code Answers:
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SECRET MESSAGE:
01001-I
00000
01100-L
01001-I
01011-K
00101-E
00000
10000-P
01001-I
00101-E
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