Inactive Tutor answered 03/21/24
Lacey L.
asked 03/04/24need help with math
A Web music store offers two versions of a popular song. The size of the standard version is 2.7 megabytes (MB). The size of the high-quality version is 4.9 MB. Yesterday, the high-quality version was downloaded four times as often as the standard version. The total size downloaded for the two versions was 5798MB. How many downloads of the standard version were there?
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"""
Variables starting with `hq` indicate
the 'high-quality' version. Variables starting
with `sv` indicate the 'standard version'.
"""
# Size of the two versions
hq_size = 4.9 # MB
sv_size = 2.7 # MB
total_size = 5798 # MB
"""
From the problem we know that `hq_downloads`
(the amount of downloads for the high quality version)
is equivalent to 4 times `sv_downloads` (the amount
of downloads for the standard version). We also know,
from the proble, that the total size downloaded for the
two versions was 5798 MB. Thus,
5798 MB = (hq_size * hq_downloads) + (sv_size * sv_downloads)
5798 MB = (4.9 MB * hq_downloads) + (2.7 MB * sv_downloads)
5798 MB = (4.9 MB * 4 * sv_downloads) + (2.7 MB * sv_downloads)
After replacing `hq_downloads` with 4*`sv_downloads`. We can solve
for `sv_downloads` in the expression above:
5798 MB = (4.9 MB * 4 * sv_downloads) + (2.7 MB * sv_downloads)
5798 MB = (19.6 MB * sv_downloads) + (2.7 MB * sv_downloads)
5798 MB = (19.6 MB + 2.7 MB) * sv_downloads
5798 MB = (22.3 MB) * sv_downloads
Therefore,
"""
sv_downloads = total_size / (hq_size * 4 + sv_size) # Dimensionless
print(f"There were {sv_downloads} downloads of the standard version.")
"""
The following should print upon running this code:
There were 260 downloads of the standard version.
"""
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