Question 3. [8 marks]
Assume that a system uses 10-bit floating-point representation based on the IEEE floating-point format, in which:
• There is 1 sign bit.
• There are k = 6 exponent bits. The exponent bias is 31.
• There are n = 3 fraction bits.
Convert the decimal number -5.5 into the 10-bit IEEE floating point representation explained above.
Write the final result in 10-bit binary format.
Show your steps.
