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Which of the following is NOT true about data?

A. It is information processed or stored by a computer
B. It is stored and processed in decimal format
C. It can be in the form of figures, texts, images or other types of
information
D. It can be transferred from one computer to another

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Answer: B. It is stored and processed in decimal format

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Step-by-step explanation:

Choice B is not true because data is stored and processed in binary format. This is in the often talked about format of 1s and 0s. Binary is preferred because computers are built upon electronic circuits. If an electrical current is passing through a certain node, then you can represent this with 1 for "on", while no electricity would be 0 for "off". Think of a series of switches you can flip up or down. Chaining together 1's and 0's allows us to represent pretty much any kind of thing we want from documents, to pictures, to movies to videogames. The 1's and 0's can represent instructions of a program (aka computer code) or it could represent raw data such as an image file.

In short, data is not stored and processed in decimal format. It's represented in binary instead. Binary is base 2 consisting of the digits 0 and 1. In contrast, decimal format deals with the digits 0 through 9.