A 6 kilobyte file transmits 600 seconds over some connection. How many seconds will a 256 byte file be transmitted?

Let’s determine how many bytes are contained in the file, which has a size equal to 6 kilobytes, when from the school computer science curriculum we know that one kilobyte is equal to 1024 bytes:

1024 * 6 = 6144.

Determine how many times the amount of information, which is equal to 256 bytes, will be less than the amount of information, which is equal to 6144 bytes:

6144: 256 = 24.

Let’s determine how many seconds will be expressed the time it takes to transfer a file of 256 bytes through our channel:

600: 24 = 25.

Answer: 25 s.