Tuesday 14 May 2024 Afternoon Time allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
a computer
a printer
appropriate software
the Electronic Answer Document
an electronic version and a hard copy of the Skeleton Program
an electronic version and a hard copy of the Preliminary Material
an electronic version of the Data File SimulationData.txt
You must not use a calculator.
Instructions
Type the information required on the front of your Electronic Answer Document.
Before the start of the examination make sure your Centre Number, Candidate Name and Candidate
Number are shown clearly in the footer of every page (not the front cover) of yourElectronic Answer
Document.
Enter your answers into the Electronic Answer Document.
Answer all questions.
Save your work at regular intervals.
Information
The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
The maximum mark for this paper is 75.
No extra time is allowed for printing and collating.
The question paper is divided into three sections.
Advice
You are advised to allocate time to each section as follows:
Section A – 20 minutes; Section B – 25 minutes; Section C – 60 minutes.
At the end of the examination
Tie together all your printed Electronic Answer Document pages and hand them to the Invigilator.
Warning
It may not be possible to issue a result for this paper if your details are not on every page of your
Electronic Answer Document.
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Section A
You are advised to spend no more than 20 minutes on this section.
Enter your answers to Section A in your Electronic Answer Document. You must save thisdocument at
regular intervals.
Question 04 in this section asks you to write program code starting from a newprogram/project/file.
You are advised to save your program at regular intervals.
0 1 Figure 1
S1 "011101"
S2 "001100"
C "0"
R ""
FOR J = 0 TO 5X 5
- J D1 S1[X] D2
S2[X]
IF C = "0" THEN IF D1 =
D2 THEN
S "0"C
D1
ELSE
S "1"
ENDIF
ELSE
IF D1 = D2 THENS
"1"
C D1ELSE
S "0"
ENDIF
ENDIF
R CONCATENATE(S, R)ENDFOR
OUTPUT R
The function CONCATENATE(X, Y)returns the string formed by concatenating thestring Y to
the end of string X. For example, CONCATENATE("cat", "dog") returns "catdog".
The strings are zero index based.
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Complete Table 1 by hand-tracing the algorithm in Figure 1.You
may not need to use all the rows in Table 1.
You do not need to indicate that C, D1, D2and Sare strings.The first
row of Table 1 has already been completed for you.
Table 1
S1 S2 C R J X D1 D2 S
"011101" "001100" "0" ""
OUTPUT:
Copy the contents of all the unshaded cells in Table 1 into your Electronic
Answer Document.
[5 marks]
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