Consider the following statements 1. The sign of a floating point number depends on the sign of mantissa only.2. If the absolute value of a number is less than 1, the sign of exponent is zero or positive.3. With sign bit of mantissa as 0, increasing the exponent from a positive to a more positive value gives a larger floating point number. Which of the above are correct?

• A. All
• B. 1 and 2 only
• C. 1 and 3 only
• D. 2 and 3 only