Multiple choice web-design

Lower-end (8-bit) monitors are capable of displaying how many colors?

  1. 256

  2. 25,600

  3. 250,600
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Explanation

8-bit color depth uses 1 byte per pixel, allowing 2^8 = 256 possible colors. Lower-end or older monitors with 8-bit color (often called indexed color or VGA mode) were limited to this palette. Each color value references an entry in a color lookup table (CLUT).

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