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Explain why kilobytes and terabytes would not be descriptive measurements for the amount of space on an average USB storage device (8 - 256 GB).

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Answer:

The storage capacity of the USB is far greater than Kilobytes, but less than a Terabyte.

Explanation:

The USB storage device has a capacity of (8 - 256) GB. This implies that the USB has the capacity to store files size from 8 Gigabytes to 256 Gigabytes.

8 Gigabytes ≅ 8 000 000 000 bytes

256 Gigabytes ≅ 256 000 000 000 bytes

Kilobytes would not be an appropriate descriptive measurement of the storage capacity of the USB because 1 kilobyte ≅ 1 000 bytes. Thus;

8 Gigabytes ≅ 8 000 000 kilobytes

256 Gigabytes ≅ 256 000 000 Kilobytes

The storage capacity of the USB is far greater than Kilobytes.

Terabytes can not be used to describe the measurement f the USB because; 1 Terabyte ≅ 1 000 000 000 000 bytes

Thus, the storage capacity of the USB is less than 1 Terabyte.

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