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Digital Information (Unit 2, Lessons 1-6)

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  • Q1
    1000 megabytes is equivalent to approximately ______________.
    1TB
    1 GB
    1EB
    1KB
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  • Q2
    A gigabyte would be a good estimate for the size of which type of file?
    .jpeg (image)
    large database (such as Facebook)
    .txt (text)
    .mov (video)
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  • Q3
    A jpeg file would typically be measured in _______________.
    petrabytes
    gigabytes
    kilobytes
    megabytes
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  • Q4
    An audio file, such as an MP3, would typically be about how large?
    about 1GB per minute
    about 1MB per minute
    about 3MB per minute
    about 15MB per song
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  • Q5
    What is data compression?
    Representing the same information with more bits
    Representing the same information with completely different bits
    Representing the same information with an equal number of bits
    Representing the same information with fewer bits
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  • Q6
    A heuristic is ___________________.
    A problem solving approach to find a solution where there is only 1 solution that will work.
    A problem solving approach to find an exact solution.
    A problem solving approach to find exactly 5 solutions to a problem.
    A problem solving approach to find a satisfactory solution where finding an optimal or exact solution is impractical or impossible.
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  • Q7
    A(n) _____________ is the fundamental unit of a digital image, typically a tiny square or dot which contains a single point of color of a larger image.
    pixel
    image
    compression
    RGB
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  • Q8
    How many bytes (or bits) are required to encode an image that is 16 pixels wide and 18 pixels tall, if you encode each pixel with 3 bytes (24 bits) of RGB data.(Don't forget to add in the metadata! -- you should assume that we are using the file format used in this lesson with metadata that had 1 byte each for width, height and bits-per-pixel.)
    867 bytes
    288 bytes
    972 bytes
    1047 bytes
    120s
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  • Q9
    _______________ is a data compression method that uses inexact approximations, discarding some data to represent the content.
    Lossy Compression
    Pixelation
    Text Compression
    Lossless Compression
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  • Q10
    Which type of file fits the description? Compressed Image - Lossy
    JPEG
    BMP
    MP3
    WAV
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