Compared with other formats, AAC files tend to prioritize which pair of attributes?

• A. Low quality and tiny sizes.
• B. High quality audio and larger file sizes.
• C. Lossless compression and medium sizes.
• D. Interoperability across all devices but poor quality.

Answer: (B)

In digital audio, you balance how good the sound is with how big the file is. AAC is a compressed, lossy format designed to keep the sound quality high without needing huge files, and when you push for even better quality, the amount of data (and thus the file size) tends to grow. So the best pairing to describe AAC in this context is high quality audio alongside larger file sizes, since higher fidelity generally requires more data. The other options don’t fit as well: AAC isn’t about low quality, it isn’t lossless, and the idea of universally large interoperability with poor quality doesn’t capture the quality-versus-size trade-off that AAC aims to optimize.