You are asked to compute the storage requirements for the text in your hospital\

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You are asked to compute the storage requirements for the text in your hospital's new Electronic Medical Record (EMR). This EMR product is designed for worldwide applications and uses a format called UTF-32 in which each character takes up 32 bits. An average EMR note is 1500 characters long. 1200 notes are entered into the EMR in an average day. How many megabytes of storage will the EMR need for its text notes after a year (365 days) of average use? Select one: a. 4,725 megabytes b. 2,628,000 megabytes c. 2,628 megabytes d. 4,725,000 megabytes

Explanation / Answer

C. Number of bits of storage needed = 365 * 1200 * 1500 * 32 (days * notes per day * characters per note * bits used for a character ) = 21024000000 bits. converting to bytes = bits / 8 = 2628000000 converting into megabytes = bytes / (1024*1024) = 2506.25 Megabytes Hence the answer is C

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