Question

The diameter of fishing line varies. Fishing lines can have a diameter as small as 2 x 102 inch and as large as 6 x 10-2 inch. How many times larger is the thin line? thick line compared to the

Answer 1

Answer:
3 times

Explanation:
We know that:
small diameter = 2 * 10^-2 in
large diameter = 6 * 10^-2 in

We want to know how many times larger is the thin diameter compared to the large one.
We will do this as follows:
large diameter = k * small diameter
where k is the number of times that we want to find
6 * 10^-2 = k * 2 * 10^-2
k = (6 * 10^-2) / (2 * 10^-2)
k = 3

This means that the large diameter is 3 times the small one.

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