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Question 6

A marine researcher uses a specialized underwater hydrophone to record a continuous 80-second sequence of bio-acoustic signals from a pod of pilot whales. The recording is digitized with a sample rate of 32,000 Hz, and each individual sample is encoded using a bit depth of 16 bits.

Calculate the minimum file size in kilobytes (KB) of this digital audio recording.

You should show your working.

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Representing sound Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Computer Science
  3. /Representing sound

36 exam-style questions on AQA GCSE Computer Science Representing sound. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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