Question

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 of 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?

Answer 1

see the attached table

the function will be

y=2^n
n= number of folds
y= 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)