Question

The average size of a certain computer datafile is 255 kilobytes. 10 million of these datafiles can be stored in a harddisk.

What is the capacity of the harddisk, in gigabytes?
Express your answer in standard form.

Answer 1

Hi! Your answer here is 2550 GB. To find this answer, we multiply 255 (the number of kb) by 10,000,000 (the number of files.) This gives us 2,550,000,000 KB. There are 1,000,000 kb in 1 GB, so we divide 2,550,000,000 by 1,000,000, which gives us 2550. 2550 GB of files can be stored.