After the it department installed a new software package on the computers in your​ department, your workers are reporting that their computers seem to be running very slowly and that the light that indicates the hard disk running is on much more than in the past. you go to investigate and discover that the hard disk light is on most of the time. you report the situation to the it​ department, and they tell you that the computers need more memory installed because they are doing too much​ ________.
a. memory swapping
b. power surging
c. typing
d. processing
e. web browsing

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Answer is (a) Memory Swapping

Technically, swapping is the data exchange between the hard disk and the RAM. Thus, the purpose of swapping is to access data stored in the hard drive and bring it into the RAM to be used by the application program. Therefore, if an application is using ‘swap’ you either need to use less memory or purchase more RAM.