Memory Size Calculation:
1. A company produces animation effects using computers rather than
producing them manually.
(b) Each image takes about 400 kilobytes of storage. 25 images per second
are produced.
How much memory would be needed to store a 30-minute animation?
2. Juan uses a company which offers the following
Internet broadband transfer rates:
• 56 megabits per second DOWNLOAD
• 16 megabits per second UPLOAD
(a) What is the benefit of downloading tracks in MP3 format rather than in the
normal CD format?
(b) If each music track is 3.5 megabytes in size, how long would it take Juan
to download his 40 tracks?
(Show your working.)
(c) He has decided to upload 36 photographs onto his social networking
website. Each photograph is 1.8 megabytes in size.
How long would it take to upload his photographs?
3. John has bought a 4 Gbyte MP3 player.
(You may assume: 1 byte = 8 bits, 1 Mbyte = 1024 kbytes and 1Gbyte =
1024 Mbytes)
(i) We can assume that each song lasts 3 minutes and is recorded at 128
kbps (kilobits per second).
How much memory is required per song?
(ii) Using your answer in (i), how many songs can be stored on John’s MP3
player?
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(b) John also bought a device for recording television programmes. It allows
him to record a programme at the same time as he is watching an earlier
recording.
Describe how such a system would work.
4. A digital security camera was set up as shown in the diagram.
The digital CCTV camera is connected to a computer. The computer can
make the camera move in any direction by sending out digital signals. The
computer system has a 400 gigabyte hard disk.
Each image size is 400 kilobytes (0.4 gigabytes).
(i) How many images can be stored before the hard disk is full?
5. Computer memories are measured in terms of the number of bytes.
(i) What is meant by the term byte?
(ii) What is meant by a Gigabyte?
6. The following statistics refer to a music track being recorded on a CD:
• music is sampled at 44 100 times per second
• each sample is 16 bits
• each track requires separate sampling for left and right speakers of a
stereo recording
(8 bits = 1 byte, 1 megabyte = 1 048 576 bytes)
(a) (i) How many bytes are required to represent one second of sampled
music?
(ii) If a typical music track is 3 minutes long, how much memory is used on
the CD to
store one track? (Give your answer in megabytes.)
