Describe a bit and a byte. Also, explain how many bytes are in a kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, and petabyte.

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Data must be represented appropriately (using 0s and 1s) in order to be used by a computer. A single 0 or 1 is called a bit; 8 bits together is referred to as a byte.A kilobyte (KB) equals 1,024 bytes A megabyte (MB) is about 1 million bytesA gigabyte (GB) is about 1 billion bytesA terabyte (TB) is about 1 trillion bytesA petabyte (PB) is about 1,000 terabytes

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