Complete the following sentences by choosing from the options below.A CPU with a quad-core microprocessor runs _____ times as fast as a computer with a single-core processor.

A quad-core processor has four processing cores, compared with one core in a single-core processor. In the simplified comparison intended here, that means it can run up to four times as fast, so the answer is “four.” Actual speedup depends on whether the software can use all four cores.

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