Question
The thickness of a book is 3.2cm, measured between the insides of it cover. The highest page in the book is 1,096. What order of magnitude estimate does that give the thickness of a page of the book?
Answers
Damon
there are two pages per sheet of paper (front and back)
so
548 sheets of paper = 3.2 cm
so
3.2/548
about 6/1000 = .006
or .01 cm
so
548 sheets of paper = 3.2 cm
so
3.2/548
about 6/1000 = .006
or .01 cm