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An mp3 takes up about 16 kilobytes of memory per second of music if you owned a one terabyte hard drive and filled it with music how many days worth of music would you have? use dimensional analysis to solve

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Hello!


If you owned a one terabyte hard drive and filled it with music you would have 723,38 days worth of music.


Step-by-step explanation:


We're going to use dimensional analysis to solve this exercise. It consists in transforming the units using conversion factors until we get the unit we need (In this case, days of music). According to google, 1 tb=1000000000 kb, so:



1 tb*(1000000000 kb)/(1 tb)*(1 s)/(16 kb)*(1 h)/(3600 s)*(1 day)/(24 h)=723,38 days


Have a nice day!


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