It takes 24 megabytes to store 144 songs on a music player. What is the greatest number of songs that 60 megabytes could store? A. 288 B. 360 C. 540
Mathematics · Middle School · Tue Nov 03 2020
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Given the statement:
It takes 24 megabytes to store 144 songs on a music player.
Determine what is the greatest number of songs that 60 megabytes could store.
Solution:
Notice that there is a proportion between the file size and the number of songs that is stored. This can be represented as
Storage capacity:Number of Songs
24 : 144
It can be simplified to the lowest terms as,
1 : 6
Now that we know that for every 1 megabyte we'll have 6 songs, therefore to get the capacity of 60 megabytes we multiply it by 6.
= (6)(60)
=360 songs
Final answer:
B.360