2. When an application, such as an encoder, calls for a unique response from a circuit corresponding to a combination of its input variables, the two methods that best serve this purpose are the ________ and the ________.
5. Assume you have A, B, C, and D available but not their complements. The minimum number of 2-input NAND gates required to implement the equation is ________.
Correct Answer: three AND gates, one NOT gate, one OR gate
7. Occasionally, a particular logic expression will be of no consequence in the operation of a circuit, such as a BCD-to-decimal converter. These result in ________terms in the K-map and can be treated as either ________ or ________, in order to ________ the resulting term.