A megabyte holds about 1,000,000 characters of data. A gigabyte holds about 1,000 times more datathan a megabyte. About how many charaters of data does the gigabyte hold?

Given:

A megabyte holds 1,000,000 = 10⁶ characters of data.

Because a gigabyte is 1,000 times more than a megabyte, it holds

10⁶*1,000 = 10⁶ * 10³ = 10⁹ characters of data.

Answer:

A gigabyte holds 10⁹ or 1,000,000,000 characters of data.