Now, what do you think the thickness would be after 30 folds? 45 folds? Make a guess. Class 8

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Now, what do you think the thickness would be after 30 folds? 45 folds? Make a guess. Class 8

Question 1.

Now, what do you think the thickness would be after 30 folds? 45 folds? Make a guess.Class 8

Solution:

About 10 km and about 340000 km.

Question 2.

Fill the table below. Class 8

Fold	Thickness	Fold	Thickness	Fold	Thickness
18	≈ 262 cm	21		24
19	≈ 524 cm	22		25
20	≈ 10.4 m	23		26

After 26 folds, the thickness is approximately 670 m. Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world, is 830 m tall.

Fold	Thickness	Fold	Thickness
27	≈ 1.3 cm	29
28		30

After 30 folds, the thickness of the paper is about 10.7 km, the typical height at which planes fl. The deepest point discovered in the oceans is the Mariana Trench, with a depth of 11 km.

Fold	Thickness	Fold	Thickness	Fold	Thickness
31		36		41
32		37		42
33		38		43
34		39		44
35		40		45

Solution:

Fold	Thickness	Fold	Thickness
18	≈ 262 cm	23	83.2 m
19	≈ 524 cm	24	166.4 m
20	≈ 10.4 m	25	332.8 m
21	≈ 20.8 m	25	665.6 m
22	≈ 41.6 m

Fold	Thickness	Fold	Thickness
27	≈ 1.3 cm	29	5.2 km
28	≈ 2.6 km	30	10.4 km

Fold	Thickness	Fold	Thickness
31	20.8 km	39	5324 km
32	41.6 km	40	10648 km
33	83.2 km	41	21296 km
34	166.4 km	42	42592 km
35	332.8 km	43	85184 km
36	665.6 km	44	170368 km
37	1331 km	45	340736 km
38	2662 km