What is the exact number of bytes in a system that contains (a) 32K bytes, (b) 64M bytes, and (c) 6.4G bytes?

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What is the exact number of bytes in a system that contains (a) 32K bytes, (b) 64M bytes, and (c) 6.4G bytes?
What is the largest binary number that can be expressed with 14 bits? What are the equivalent decimal and hexadecimal number?
Perform subtraction on the given unsigned binary numbers using the 2’s complement of the subtrahend. Where the result should be negative, find its 2’s complement and affix a minus sign.
(a) 10011 - 10010 (b) 100010 - 100110
(c) 1001 - 110101 (d) 101000 – 10101
Convert the decimal number 431 to binary in two ways: (a) convert directly to binary; (b) convert first to hexadecimal and then from hexadecimal to binary. Which method is faster?

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