Answer: 1 gigabyte of a computer drive can hold of about [tex]10^9[/tex] bytes.
Explanation: We are given an external computer flash drive which can hold a data of about 1 gigabyte.
We know that,
1 gigabyte contains 1000 Megabytes of data
and 1 megabyte of a data can hold of about 1 million bytes.
From the above conversion, we get
[tex]1GB=(1000\times 10^6)bytes=10^9bytes[/tex]