Problem:
When the World Wide Web first became popular in the 1990s, 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.)
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There are kilobits in a megabyte and seconds in a minute. Given a transmission speed of kilobits per second, the approximate download time, in minutes, for a -megabyte song would have been
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