The type of code that uses only seven bits for each character is ____.
A) ASCII
B) Extended ASCII
C) EBCDIC
D) all of the above

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ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) uses only seven bits for each character (128 possible characters). Therefore, option A is the correct answer.

Option B, Extended ASCII, extends the standard ASCII character set to include additional characters and symbols by using all eight bits for each character.

Option C, EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code), is a character encoding used mainly on IBM mainframe computers and uses eight bits for each character.

The Type of Code That Uses Only Seven Bits for Each