Binary Shifts

Lesson Instructions

Watch and follow the YouTube video, the lesson contains three parts:

Key Information and content - all you need to do here is watch and listen. We recommend you take some notes for this one!
Learning activity - You are to complete the exercise completing and explaining what happens with binary shifts.
Consolidation - these are past exam question and are for deliberate practice to check your understanding.

Binary Shifts Full Lesson Video.mp4

Task - Binary Shifts Activity

Binary shifts activity

Task - Exam Questions - Deliberate Practice

Exam Questions - Web

Mark Scheme

Question 1 (a)

00110010

Question 1 (b)

1 mark per bullet to a maximum of 2.

The number is divided by 4
Loss of accuracy...
...the bits on the right are removed

Question 2 (a)

1 mark for each correct answer:

Denary equivalent: 173 (top row)
Binary number after 2 place left shift: 10110100
Denary equivalent for number after shift: 180

Question 2 (b)

1 mark for each point:

The number should multiply by 4...
...but it gives the wrong answer, because the value is more than 255, the maximum number represented by 8 bits

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