(a) A 3.5GHz processor clock laptop was tested with Whetstone benchmark and a 3.3GHz processor clock laptop was tested with Dhrystone benchmark.All things equal to 3.5 GHz laptop would be faster.When the performance of the two laptops where tested,the 3.3GHz processor finished executing first.

(I) what was wrong with the approach of comparing the performance of the two processors?

(II) How would you do the comparisons?

(b )Consider the decimal number 96.625.Convert this number to IEEE7T4 floating point format to single precision format.