By comparing a 1 Gigabit per second fiber connection in San Francisco to a 500 kilobits per second connection in Pakistan, how many times faster is the SF office connection?

By comparing a 1 Gigabit per second fiber connection in San Francisco to a 500 kilobits per second connection in Pakistan, how many times faster is the SF office connection?

• A. 1000x
• B. 1500x
• C. 2000x
• D. 4000x

Answer: (C)

Comparing speeds means putting them in the same units and taking the ratio to see how many times larger one is. Convert 1 Gigabit per second to kilobits per second: 1 Gbps equals 1,000,000 kbps. The other connection is 500 kbps. Divide: 1,000,000 by 500 equals 2000. So the San Francisco fiber connection is 2000 times faster than the Pakistan connection.

Comparing speeds means putting them in the same units and taking the ratio to see how many times larger one is. Convert 1 Gigabit per second to kilobits per second: 1 Gbps equals 1,000,000 kbps. The other connection is 500 kbps. Divide: 1,000,000 by 500 equals 2000. So the San Francisco fiber connection is 2000 times faster than the Pakistan connection.