Relax, it's just 50,000 Bytes under the sea!
Cynthia was sleepwalking while texting her phone (don't ask) late up at night. Since her special handy-dandy super-ultra-strong blindfold was still on, she did not notice that she took a three second bath in the lake with her phone. Assuming that bytes are lost in water at the rate of , how much data, in gigabytes , are lost from that incident?
Round your answer to the nearest whole number.
The answer is 1118.
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1 solution
This problem is fairly simple; the only hard part is changing bytes to gigabytes.
She stayed in the pool for 3 seconds.
3 × 4 E 1 1 = 1 . 2 E 1 2
Our answer 1 . 2 E 1 2 is still in terms of bytes. However we can fix this; one Gigabyte is equal to 1073741824 bytes. Following this conversion rate, our answer and formula is clear.
1 0 7 3 7 4 1 8 2 4 1 . 2 E 1 2
If a calculator is near you, you should get 1 1 1 7 . 5 8 7 0 8 9 . . . . Now round to the nearest whole number.
1 1 1 7 . 5 8 7 0 8 9 . . . . ⇒ 1 1 1 8
So our answer is rounded up, 1 1 1 8 Gigabytes of storage lost! And that kids, is why you should never jump into a pool with your phone next to you.