03 — Practice solutions

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These are independently written explanations, not an official marking scheme.

03A

10 accepted (normal); 1 and 20 accepted (valid boundaries); 0 and 21 rejected (just outside boundaries). Double entry compares two independently entered values to detect differences in transcription. Range validation checks the entered value against 1–20; a mistyped value of 12 instead of 13 passes it.

03B

Weighted sum 1×6+0×5+0×4+0×3+3×2 = 12, remainder 1, so 10003X. Text allows X and preserves leading zeroes; the identifier is not a quantity. Some erroneous identifiers can produce the same check character, and a matching check character does not establish that the identifier was actually issued.