The decimal floating point number -40.1 represented using IEEE-754 32-bit representation and written in hexadecimal form is
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Correct answer: A. 0xC2206666
Explanation
40.1 = 101000.000110011… = 1.01000000110011… × 2⁵. Sign 1, exponent 127 + 5 = 132 = 10000100, mantissa 0100 0000 1100 1100 1100 110. Bits 1100 0010 0010 0000 0110 0110 0110 0110 = 0xC2206666.
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