Memory size calculation
1. The company takes a photograph of their office to put on the website. The photograph has
a resolution of 1000 pixels by 1000 pixels. Two bytes per pixel are used to represent the
colours.
(i) Estimate the file size of the photograph in megabytes. Show your working.
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(ii) A second picture has width 2048 pixels and height 512 pixels. It is saved as a 256-colour
image.
Calculate the file size in kilobytes.
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(iii) The designer takes a photograph to put on the poster. The photograph has a resolution of
50000 pixels by 50 000 pixels. The colours are represented using 4 bytes per pixel.
Estimate the file size of the photograph in gigabytes. Show your working.
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2 The following information refers to a music track being recorded on a CD:
• music is sampled 44 100 times per second
• each sample is 16 bits
• each track requires sampling for left and right speakers
(i) Calculate the number of bytes required to store one second of sampled music.
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(ii) A particular track is four minutes long.
Describe how you would calculate the number of megabytes required to store this track.
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