Question
An ant is roughly 10^(-3) meters in length and the average human roughly one meter. How many times longer is a human than an ant?
The human is ____ times longer than an ant.
The human is ____ times longer than an ant.
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Steve
if a slice of pizza is 1/8 of a pizza, how many slices are there in a whole pizza?
an ant is 1/1000 as long as a human, so ...
an ant is 1/1000 as long as a human, so ...
Steve
10^(-3) = 1/0.001 × 1 meter
1/0.001 = 1000
1/0.001 = 1000