2022 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 7
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Problem
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
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
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Video Solution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij9pAy6tQSg&t=475
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See Also
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