CBSE Class 8 Mathematics Question 2 of 14

Power Play — Question 2

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Fill in the table below. (Use the thickness of the sheet 0.001 cm) (Page 20)
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The height of folded paper will blow our minds. Here are some equivalent heights based on the number of folds. After 10 folds, the thickness is just above 1 cm (1.024 cm). After 17 folds, the thickness is about 131 cm (a little more than 4 feet). At 24 folds, the paper is nearly as tall as the Statue of Unity. At 25 times its height, it becomes taller than the Statue of Unity and the Eiffel Tower. At 26 folds, the paper becomes taller than the Statue of Unity and the Eiffel Tower, but it is still slightly shorter than Burj Khalifa. At 27 folds, the paper becomes 1.34 km thick, which is taller than the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building. At 33 folds, the thickness reaches 85.9 km, bringing it close to the Karman Line, the official edge of outer space! By 36 folds, the paper’s thickness is around 687 km, making it taller than the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS)! After 45 folds, the paper becomes about 351,844 km thick, which is almost the distance from Earth to the Moon! It may seem unbelievable, but after just 46 folds, the thickness of a paper exceeds 700,000 kilometers. That’s the incredible power of exponential (multiplicative) growth, small beginnings that grow unimaginably big, very fast!