Agent Bourne transferred classified files from the CIA mainframe into his flash drive. The drive has 36.5 megabytes on it before the transfer, and the transfer happened at a constant rate. After 125 seconds, there were 549 megabytes on the drive. The drive had a maximum capacity of 1000 megabytes. What was the speed of the transfer?
Accepted Solution
A:
The speed was 4.1 MB/sec.
We first find the amount that was transferred within the first 125 seconds:
549-36.5=512.5
Now we divide this by 125, the number of seconds: 512.5/125 = 4.1