Convert 5 Megabits to Megabytes
How big is 5 megabits? How many megabytes are in 5 megabits? 5 Mbits to MB conversion.
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5 Megabits =
0.625 Megabytes
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Result in Plain English
5 megabits is equal to exactly 5⁄8 of a megabyte.
To a Percentage
5 megabits = 62.5% of a megabyte.
Result as a Fraction
5 megabits
= 5⁄8 megabytes
= five eighths of a megabyte
In Scientific Notation
5 megabits
= 5 x 100 megabits
= 6.25 x 10-1 megabytes
Megabits
A megabit is 1 million bits, or 1/8th of a megabyte. Although files are usually measured in megabytes, internet speed is usually advertised in megabits to make it seem faster.
Megabytes
A megabyte is 1 million bytes. A typical MP3 song is about 4 megabytes in size. A related unit, the mebibyte, is 220 or 1,048,576 bytes.