The Himalayan Mountains have been growing slowly for about 50 million years. Using the same method, find out how many human lifetimes have passed since the Himalayan Mountains began to grow.

Question

Using your answer from the previous question complete the statements to find out how many human lifetimes have passed since the Himalayan Mountains began to form.

"Let h represent the number of human lifetimes.

h = $\frac{50,000,000}{80}$50,000,00080 =

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In other words,
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human lifetimes have passed since the Himalayan Mountains began to form."

Answer 1

To find how many human lifetimes have passed since the Himalayan Mountains began to grow, we can use the following formula:

\[ h = \frac{50,000,000 \text{ years}}{80 \text{ years/lifetime}} \]

Calculating this:

\[ h = \frac{50,000,000}{80} = 625,000 \]

Now, filling in the statements:

"Let h represent the number of human lifetimes.

h = \( \frac{50,000,000}{80} \) = 625,000.

In other words, 625,000 human lifetimes have passed since the Himalayan Mountains began to form."