One kilobyte of memory can store about two-thirds of a page of typical text (excluding formatting). Suppose the typical book is 500 pages. Could a 4-gigabyte flash drive hold tens, hundreds, thousands, or millions of such books?
A)Tens
B)Hundreds
C)Thousands
D)Millions

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A kilobyte (KB) is 1,024 bytes, and a gigabyte (GB) is approximately 1,024 megabytes (MB), or 1,048,576 kilobytes. A 4GB flash drive is about 4,194,304 kilobytes. If one page of text is roughly 1.5 kilobytes (two-thirds of a kilobyte for half a page), a 500-page book would be about 750 kilobytes. Therefore, a 4GB flash drive could hold about 5,592 books (4,194,304 kilobytes / 750 kilobytes per book), which falls into the category of thousands.

One Kilobyte of Memory Can Store About Two-Thirds of a Page