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A megabyte holds about 1,000,000 characters of data. A gigabyte holds about 1,000 times more datathan a megabyte. About how many charaters of data does the gigabyte hold?
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A megabyte holds about 1,000,000 characters of data. A gigabyte holds about 1,000 times more datathan a megabyte. About how many charaters of data does the gigabyte hold?

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Given:
A megabyte holds 1,000,000 = 10⁶ characters of data.

Because a gigabyte is 1,000 times more than a megabyte, it holds
10⁶*1,000 = 10⁶ * 10³ = 10⁹ characters of data.

Answer:
A gigabyte holds 10⁹ or 1,000,000,000 characters of data.
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