Practice High-level Program For Totalling Marks (16.4.1)

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Question 1.
What is the function of the accumulator in the instruction set?
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It's used for intermediate calculations.
Question 2.
What opcode would you use for subtraction?
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Remember the numbering of instruction codes.
3Question 3.
What does the accumulator do?
- Stores the final results
- Temporarily holds calculations
- Manages memory addresses
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Think about what happens during calculations.
4Question 4.
True or False: We can manipulate memory addresses dynamically with the given instruction set.
- True
- False
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Consider how loops are structured.
Question 5.
Design an efficient algorithm that totals an array of 10 student grades with dynamic memory referencing.
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Think about how you'd use a pointer to iterate through an array.
Question 6.
Create a detailed plan for improving the instruction set to allow flexible memory addressing.
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Consider how other programming languages handle arrays and memory.

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