1 A software developer is using a microphone to collect various sounds for his new game. He is also using a sound editing app.

When collecting sounds, the software developer can decide on the sampling resolution he wishes to use.

ai What is meant by sampling resolution?

ii Describe how sampling resolution will affect how accurate the stored digitised sound will be.

The software developer will include images in his new game.

bi Explain the term image resolution.

ii The software developer is using 16-colour bitmap images. How many bits would be used to encode data for one pixel of his image?

iii One of his images is 16 384 pixels wide and 512 pixels high. He decides to save it as a 256-colour bitmap image. Calculate the size of the image file in gibibytes.

iv Describe any file compression techniques the developer may use.