Question

How many characters does a text file with 2698 characters contain, considering they are from the extended ASCII character set?

a) 128
b) 256
c) 512
d) 1024

Answer 1

The extended ASCII character set can represent up to 256 different characters. A text file with 2698 characters uses some combination of these available characters. Thus, the correct answer to how many characters the extended ASCII can represent is option b) 256.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question seems to be asking how many different characters can be represented using the extended ASCII character set, rather than how many characters a text file contains. Extended ASCII can represent up to 256 characters.

When the question states a text file has 2698 characters, it means that there are 2698 individual characters in the file. However, the count of characters possible in a set, such as the extended ASCII character set, remains at 256 characters total.

Thus, even if a file contains 2698 characters, they are all represented using some combination of the 256 characters available in the extended ASCII set.