Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is correct about ASCII?

  1. The older version of ASCII had 8 bits.

  2. ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Integer Interchange.

  3. ASCII is only used in computers.

  4. The new version of ASCII has 16 bits.

  5. In ASCII, each character is represented by a unique integer value.
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Explanation

In ASCII, each character is represented by a unique integer value. The values 0-31 is used for non-printing control codes, and the range from 32-127 is used to represent the alphabets and common punctuation symbols.

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