Question

remy is setting up a cooking blog and is deciding whether to use lossy compression algorithms on her photos of yummy meals. whats a good explanation of the benefits and drawbacks to lossy compression algorithms? choose 1 answer: a lossy compression algorithms reduce the file size, but they can only reduce up to 10% of the file size. b lossy compression algorithms reduce the file size, but your users will be unhappy because the images will clearly be lower quality. c lossy compression algorithms reduce the file size, but the compression is irreversible, so you need to store the original images if you ever want to display the photos at a higher quality. d lossy compression algorithms dont reduce the file size, but they do appear to download faster because of some neat tricks.

Explanation:

Lossy compression reduces file size by permanently discarding some data. Once compressed, the original cannot be fully restored. So, the original images should be stored if higher - quality display is needed in the future. Option A is wrong as there is no fixed 10% reduction limit. Option B is an over - generalization about user unhappiness. Option D is incorrect as lossy compression does reduce file size.

Answer:

C. Lossy compression algorithms reduce the file size, but the compression is irreversible, so you need to store the original images if you ever want to display the photos at a higher quality.