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Text, Sound and Images

Data Representation · 3 question types

Exam Frequency Analysis

Past paper frequency (2018 to 2024)

This topic accounts for approximately 5% of your exam marks.

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Stable5%

ASCII/Unicode, sound sampling and pixel/colour depth appear regularly as 2 to 4 mark questions.

The standard exam formula for the size of an uncompressed bitmap is:

file size (bits) = image width () × image height (pixels) × (bits per pixel)

To convert to bytes, divide by 8.