Question

The octal system uses base 8. the only available digits would be 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. if the value 2468 is converted to decimal value, it would be expanded as (2 * 82) + (4 * 81) + (6 * 80). what would be the result of this

Answer 1

Your description and expansion suggest you want to evaluate
.. 246₈ = 2*8² +4*8¹ +6*8⁰
.. = 2*64 +4*8 +6
.. = 166