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1 (a) The website hosts videos that users can stream.

The company uploads new videos to the


website.

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The videos are compressed before they are uploaded to the website.

Tick (✓) one box to show which statement is a benefit of compressing the videos.

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A. Data is encrypted.
B. Duration of each video will be reduced.
C. Less storage space on the web server is required.
D. More bandwidth is required when viewing the videos.
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(b) Give two methods of compression that could be used to compress the videos.
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2 Jack has an MP3 file stored on his computer.

Tick (✓) to show whether the MP3 file is a lossy compressed file or a lossless
compressed file or not a compressed file.
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Tick (✓)

Lossy compressed file

Lossless compressed file

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Not a compressed file

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(1 mark)

3 A student has a sound file that is too large to be stored on their external secondary
storage device. The student compresses the sound file to make the file size smaller.
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The compression method used reduces the sample rate and the sample resolution of
the sound file.

Identify which type of compression has been used to compress the sound file.
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(1 mark)

4 Computer memories are measured in terms of the number of bytes.

State what is meant by the term byte


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1 An image is stored on a computer. The image is 16‑bit colour and is 100 pixels high and
150 pixels wide.

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Calculate the file size of the image in bytes.

Show all your working.

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(3 marks)

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1 The following data is stored as a text file:

red, green, yellow, green, purple, blue, red, purple, blue, yellow, grey, black, pink, red,

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Explain how lossless compression would compress this file.

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2 (a) Explain the difference between a megabyte (MB) and a mebibyte (MiB).

(2 marks)

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(b) Calculate how many kibibytes (KiB) there are in 3 gibibytes (GiB)?

Show your working.

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