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Which is the bigger unit of space in a computer drive’s memory, a gigabyte or megabyte?
  1. Gigabytes and megabytes are actually equal in size, but they store different types of files. Megabytes are the units in which text is stored; gigabytes are the units in which images are stored. Images are more complex files and therefore bigger, but gigabytes themselves are no larger than megabytes.
  2. A gigabyte is larger because it contains the space of one billion bytes whereas a megabyte contains the space of one million bytes.
  3. A megabyte is larger because it contains the space of one billion bytes whereas a gigabyte contains the space of one million bytes.
  4. Gigabytes and megabytes do not measure the same type of file capacity and are therefore incomparable.
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Answer: B - A gigabyte is larger than a megabyte because a gigabyte equals one billion bytes of space and a megabyte equals one million bytes of space. Therefore, a gigabyte is 100 times larger than a megabyte. The type of files stored in the space does not affect the size or capacity of the units.
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