{"id":274679,"date":"2025-07-28T10:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=274679"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:03:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:03:40","slug":"marys-music-files-take-up-8-gig-of-space-on-her-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/28\/marys-music-files-take-up-8-gig-of-space-on-her-hard-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary&#8217;s music files take up 8 gig of space on her hard drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mary&#8217;s music files take up 8 gig of space on her hard drive. About how many bytes is that?<br>[A] 8,000,000,000<br>[B] 1,000,000,000<br>[C] 8,000,000<br>[D] 1,000,000<br>[E] 8,000,000,000,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\">The correct answer and explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct answer is <strong>[A] 8,000,000,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To explain this, it&#8217;s important to understand the relationship between gigabytes (GB) and bytes. The standard conversion from gigabytes to bytes is based on powers of 10 for the decimal system (not the binary system, which is sometimes used in computing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 gigabyte (GB) is equal to 1,000,000,000 bytes (or 10^9 bytes). So, if Mary&#8217;s music files take up 8 GB of space, we can multiply 8 by the number of bytes in 1 GB: 8\u2009GB\u00d71,000,000,000\u2009bytes\/GB=8,000,000,000\u2009bytes.8 \\, \\text{GB} \\times 1,000,000,000 \\, \\text{bytes\/GB} = 8,000,000,000 \\, \\text{bytes}.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that the 8 gigabytes of space are equivalent to 8,000,000,000 bytes, which is answer choice [A].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other options are incorrect:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>[B] 1,000,000,000<\/strong> bytes corresponds to 1 GB, not 8 GB.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>[C] 8,000,000<\/strong> bytes would be 8 megabytes (MB), not gigabytes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>[D] 1,000,000<\/strong> bytes is 1 megabyte (MB), much smaller than the 8 GB.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>[E] 8,000,000,000,000<\/strong> bytes is 8 terabytes (TB), which is far larger than the 8 GB.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Understanding these conversions is essential when dealing with file sizes in computing, and the correct conversion for gigabytes to bytes is based on multiplying by 1 billion (10^9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary&#8217;s music files take up 8 gig of space on her hard drive. About how many bytes is that?[A] 8,000,000,000[B] 1,000,000,000[C] 8,000,000[D] 1,000,000[E] 8,000,000,000,000 The correct answer and explanation is: The correct answer is [A] 8,000,000,000. To explain this, it&#8217;s important to understand the relationship between gigabytes (GB) and bytes. 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