Suppose you were able to take a large piece of paper of ordinary thickness and fold it in half 50 times. what would the height o

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Suppose you were able to take a large piece of paper of ordinary thickness and fold it in half 50 times. what would the height o

f the folded paper be? would it be less than a foot? about one yard? as long as a street block? as tall as the empire state building? taller than mount everest?

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Lapatulllka [165] · Answer 1 · 2022-08-23T10:59:26+03:00

see the attached table

the function will be

y=2<span>^n
n= number of folds
y= </span>thick (number of sheets)

the answer is

the height of the folded paper will be 4.50 E+12 in------> 1.62 E+13 m

the result obtained exceeds all the comparisons indicated in the problem (see the attached table)