First Class Work

Computer Units of Measurement Review activity

Description:

This activity is designed to evaluate your prior(pre-existing) knowledge of computer fundamentals. In this activity students are required to apply their knowledge of computer units of measurement to solve a set of problems.

Instructions:

In your "electronic notebook" solve the following problems.


Classwork:

1. Create a Microsoft word file "write a word" and then check what is the file size. Compare this size with the size of a picture, power point presentation, mp3 file, video file.

File size

Microsoft Word _____
Power Point ____
Mp3 file ____
Video ______
Picture ______



2. Find out the available space on your computer hard drives and then answer the following questions:

Total space:
Available space:

a. How many video files of 30 MB can we save in this hard drive
b.How many mp3 audio files can we save on it.
c. How many Microsoft word files can we save on it
d. How many pictures can we save on it.


3. Solve the following problem:


a.How many mp3 songs of 8MB can I save into my 180 GB Ipod ?

b.How many videos of 60 MB can I save into my 4 GB usb memory?

5.Perform the following conversions:

a. 3 Tera Bytes to Mega Bytes
b. 1024 Giga Bytes to TeraBytes
c. 300 Mega Bytes to Kilo Bytes
d. 20000 Kilo Bytes to Giga Bytes


6. In your own words explain the procedure you followed to convert from Tera Bytes to Mega Bytes.



7. In your own words explain the procedure you followed to convert from Kilo Bytes to Giga Bytes.