I was reviewing for finals when I came across something I dontknow. Can anyone h

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I was reviewing for finals when I came across something I dontknow. Can anyone help me understand how to get the answer:

Consider a simple 16 bit floating point format that uses one bit toindicate sign where 1 means negative, 4 bits for the exponent, and11 bits for the mantissa. Remember the exponent is stored in2’s complement. When reaching your final answer, make sureyou show your work for converting the exponent and the mantissa.Finally show your answer in base 10 with the correct signindicated.

a. 1011 0101 0100 0000

Answer:

Sign               1
Exponent       -6
Mantissa        1.00048828125
Overall           0.01563262939453125

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