2022 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 7
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When the World Wide Web first became popular in the s, download speeds reached a maximum of about kilobits per second. Approximately how many minutes would the download of a -megabyte song have taken at that speed? (Note that there are kilobits in a megabyte.)
Solution 1
Notice that the number of kilobits in this song is
We must divide this by in order to find out how many seconds this song would take to download:
Finally, we divide this number by because this is the number of seconds to get the answer
~wamofan
Solution 2
We seek a value of that makes the following equation true, since every other quantity equals .
Solving yields .
-Benedict T (countmath1)
Video Solution by Math-X (First understand the problem!!!)
https://youtu.be/oUEa7AjMF2A?si=ZRtIWQMPPOjOX9fB&t=822
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