A deep-sea research probe is configured to record the low-frequency acoustic signals of marine life. The engineering team must choose between using an 8-bit resolution and a 24-bit resolution to represent the amplitude of the captured sound samples.
Compare the implications of using 24 bits instead of 8 bits to represent the amplitude of these sound samples.
40 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Computer Science Data representation, covering Encoding characters with 7-bit ASCII, Representing bitmap images in binary, Representing analogue sound in binary, and Limitations of binary representation. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.