Year 8 – Representations: from clay to silicon Learner worksheet

Lesson 5 – Large quantities

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Compare and convert

Problem 1 Comparing sizes
In the table below, you can see the name, size, and type of six files.

In the blank column to the right, write the sizes of the files in order from the smallest to
the largest one.

Name ▼ Size Type Size

(order: smaller to larger)

book.pdf document 23.0MB

book.txt text 720KB

logo.png image 23KB

party.mkv video 2.0GB

picture.jpg image 2.3MB

song.mp3 audio 1.6MB

Problem 2 Converting to bits

Nowadays, a standard hard disk has a capacity of 1TB.
‘T’ stands for the prefix ‘tera-’ and uppercase ‘B’ means ‘bytes’, so 1TB is 1 terabyte.

Questions Your answers ▿

How many bytes is 1 terabyte? Number of bytes in 1 terabyte:

How many bits is 1 terabyte? Number of bits in 1 terabyte:

Hint: Start from your answer to the

previous question.

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Problem 3 How many will fit?

You really enjoy taking pictures with your mobile phone. You purchase a 16GB memory
card and you want to know how many pictures you can store on the memory card. The
size of each individual picture is approximately 4MB.

Questions Your answers ▿

The card’s capacity is expressed in 16GB (gigabytes) expressed in MB:

GB (gigabytes). A picture’s size is
expressed in MB (megabytes). You
will need to convert.

How many MB is 16GB?

(Convert 16 gigabytes to
megabytes.)

How many pictures can be stored Number of pictures:

on your memory card?

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Explorer task How long will it take?

An internet connection can be called ‘superfast’ if it can transfer over 24Mb per second
(that’s 24 megabits per second).

You’d like to know how long it would take to transfer a file with a size of 3GB (gigabytes)
using a superfast connection.

Questions Your answers ▿

How many MB (megabytes) are Transfer speed in MB per second:

transferred in a second?

(convert 24 megabits to
megabytes)

What is the size of the 3GB file in 3GB (gigabytes) expressed in MB:
MB (megabytes)?

(Convert 3 gigabytes to
megabytes.)

How long would the file transfer Transfer time (in seconds):
take?

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