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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Solution:
Given our definition of a megabyte as kilobits, we know that megabytes is kilobits. This can be rewritten as kilobits, which leads to us having kilobits.
Since we know there are kilobits per second, we have seconds. This leads us to the answer of minutes.
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