CBSE Class 8 Mathematics Question 3 of 14

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What do you think the thickness would be after 30 folds? 36 folds? Try to match it to a real-world height.
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After 30 folds, the paper’s thickness exceeds 10.74 km, which is higher than Mount Everest and even higher than most airplanes fly. After 36 folds, the paper becomes about 687 km thick, which is almost the distance from Earth to the exosphere (Earth’s outermost atmospheric layer). 2.2 Exponential Notation and Operations Intext Questions