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Parsons: Data Units

Order units and arrange calculation steps

Exercise 1: Order Units from Smallest to Largest

Drag the units to arrange them in order from smallest to largest.

Megabyte (MB)
Nibble
Terabyte (TB)
Byte
Bit
Gigabyte (GB)
Kilobyte (KB)
Petabyte (PB)
Smallest Largest

Exercise 2: Order the Image Calculation Steps

Arrange the steps in the correct order to calculate image file size.

Task: Calculate file size of a 1024 × 768 image with 24-bit colour, answer in MB.
Multiply total pixels by colour depth (24 bits)
Divide by 1,000,000 to get MB
Divide by 8 to convert bits to bytes
Calculate total pixels (1024 × 768)
First Last

Exercise 3: Order the Audio Calculation Steps

Arrange the steps in the correct order to calculate audio file size.

Task: Calculate file size of 3-minute stereo audio at 44,100 Hz, 16-bit, answer in MB.
Multiply by bit depth (16)
Divide by 8 to get bytes
Convert duration to seconds (3 × 60 = 180)
Multiply by 2 for stereo
Multiply sample rate by duration (44,100 × 180)
Divide by 1,000,000 for MB
First Last

Exercise 4: Match Capacity to Real-World Examples

Drag each storage capacity to match the most appropriate example.

1 PB
1 TB
4 GB
5 MB
10 KB
1 byte

Single character (ASCII)

Short text document

MP3 music file

HD movie file

External hard drive

Data centre storage

Exercise 5: Order the Conversion Steps

Arrange the steps to convert 2 GB to bits.

Multiply bytes by 8 to get bits
Multiply MB by 1,000 to get KB
Multiply GB by 1,000 to get MB
Multiply KB by 1,000 to get bytes
First Last

Exercise 6: Categorize by Typical File Size

Drag each file type to its typical size category.

Plain text email
Digital photo (JPEG)
HD Video (1 hour)
Word document (text only)
MP3 song (4 minutes)
Modern video game
PowerPoint presentation
Python code file

Small (KB range)

Text files, code, emails

Medium (MB range)

Images, music, documents with graphics

Large (GB range)

Videos, games, databases