Statement (I): Sign-magnitude representation is rarely

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The following six (6) items consist of two statements, one labelled as ‘Statement (I)’ and the other as ‘Statement (II)‘. You are to examine these two statements carefully and select the answers to these items using the code given below:

Statement (I): Sign-magnitude representation is rarely used in implementing the integer of the ALU.
Statement (II): There are two representations of zero in sign-magnitude representation.

[ESE 2019 Paper 2 (Technical) ECE]

A Both Statement (I) and Statement (II) are individually true and Statement (II) is the correct explanation of Statement (I)

B Both Statement (I) and Statement (II) are individually true but Statement (II) is not the correct explanation of Statement (I)

C Statement (I) is true but Statement (II) is false

D Statement (I) is false but Statement (II) is true