Question

Computer capacity is often measured in bits and bytes. A bit is the smallest unit, which is a 1 or 0, in the computer’s memory. A byte is 2^3 bits. A megabyte (MB) is 2^20 bytes. How many bytes are in a megabyte?

Answer 1

It tells you how many bytes are in a megabyte in the sentence just before that question: 2^20 bytes. Either you posted the question incorrectly or it's just asking you to put 2^20 into a calculator and use the result.

Answer 2

ok thanks

Answer 3

so i put 2^20 in the calculator then thats how i do it

Answer 4

Yes

Answer 5

ok

Answer 6

but it says to write an answer as a power of 2

Answer 7

Then please check the question. One megabyte is 2^20 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes.

Answer 8

ok

Answer 9

Or is it asking how many megaBITs are in 1 megaBYTE?

Answer 10

If that's what it's asking then it would be \[\large 2^{3}*2^{20}=2^{23}\space bits\]

Answer 11

i didnt really get the question either i couldn't understand it