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Digital representations of numerical values of quantities may BEST be described as having characteristics

  • A.that are difficult to interpret because they are continuously changing
  • B.that vary constantly over a continuous range of values
  • C.that vary in constant and direct proportion to the values they represent
  • D.that vary in discrete steps in proportion to the values they represent

Answer: D

Digital representations vary in discrete steps in proportion to the values they represent.

A digital quantity can take only a fixed set of values, so as the measured quantity changes the representation jumps from one value to the next, like the digits of a counter. A 4-bit code, for instance, has exactly 16 possible values.

Changing continuously, or varying smoothly over a continuous range or in direct proportion, describes analog representation, such as the needle of a meter or the height of mercury in a thermometer.

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