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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.
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
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
Answers
Answered by
GPT-4o mini
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**
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**