Question

1. What is the largest memory that can have a starting or lowest address of 16000016?

Answer 1

The first address of any memory device is 010. The ending or highest address will have all ones going to the address lines of the memory device. Bits going to address line of memory device is all zeroes.

Converting 160000₁₆ to binary Result: 0001 0110 0000 0000 0000 0000

We can see total 17 zeroes at the end. So the largest memory at starting address has 17 address lines

So largest memory = 2¹⁷ = 128 K memory locations.