Urgent! Plz! Help in Computing June 2006 Paper 1

[arvind0708]

7 The following fields are to be stored.
• Customer name (to allow customer to be addressed properly when contacted)
• Customer telephone number (so that customer can be contacted when their order has
been completed)
• Date of original commission (so that customers are not kept waiting too long)
• Whether or not the order has been paid for.
(a) State a suitable data type for each of the four fields. [4]
(b) It is assumed that there will never be more than 1000 records

how to get the answer A and B

 

[akii]

• Customer name: String
• Customer telephone number:text
• Date of original commission: date/time
• Whether or not the order has been paid for: Boolean

(b) for records..
estimate the size of each and add them. eg customer name=20 etc
add all the size * 1000 = .............
then ............/100*110 ( for 10% overhead)
then divide by 1024 for suitable size in KB