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prealgebra intermediate
Problem
Estimate the time it takes to send blocks of data over a communications channel if each block consists of "chunks" and the channel can transmit chunks per second.
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Solution
We want to figure out the number of chunks in blocks, so we have . We divide this by to determine the number of seconds necessary to transmit. , which means that it takes approximately minutes to transmit. Thus, the answer is .
Final answer
D