Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago. Use a football field, which is 100 yards long, to model the 4,600,000,000 years since Earth formed.

Question

Using the information provided above how many years of Earth’s history would each yard line on the football field represent?

Group of answer choices

100

4,600

46,000,000

4,600,000

Answer 1

To find out how many years of Earth's history each yard line on a 100-yard football field represents, we can divide the total age of the Earth by the length of the football field.

The age of the Earth is approximately 4.6 billion years, which can be represented as:

4,600,000,000 years

The length of the football field is:

100 yards

Now, we divide the total number of years by the number of yards:

\[ \frac{4,600,000,000 \text{ years}}{100 \text{ yards}} = 46,000,000 \text{ years per yard} \]

Thus, each yard line on the football field represents 46,000,000 years of Earth's history.

The correct choice is:

46,000,000