ICSE Class 10 Computer Applications Question 19 of 30

Solved 2023 Question Paper ICSE Class 10 Computer Applications — Question 19

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Question 1(xix)

The number of bits occupied by the value ‘a’ are:

  1. 1 bit
  2. 2 bits
  3. 4 bits
  4. 16 bits
Answer

16 bits

Reason — A char data type occupies 2 bytes in the memory.

1 byte = 8 bits
2 bytes = 8 * 2 = 16 bits