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If you cut a piece of paper in half 50 times and stack it how tall is the stack?
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The first cut will produce 2 sheets (21 or 2 to the first power), the next cut will produce 4 sheets (22 or 2 to the second power or 2 times 2), the next cut will produce 8 sheets (23 or 2 to the third power or 2 times 2 times 2), the next cut will produce 16 sheets (24 or 2 to the fourth power or 2 times 2 times 2 times 2) and so on. The 50th cut will produce (250) sheets and that will be 1,125,899,906,842,624 sheets. If paper avgerages 0.081 mm thickness per sheet (per WikiAnswers.com), that would make the sheet stack 91,197,892,454,252.544 mm thick. Conversion to other units is left as an Excercise for the Student.
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What is the maxium times you can fold a piece of paper?
The answer to that question was first understood and documented and proved by a Britney Gallivan. She first had to make a definition of what a fold was (bending paper over is not true folding) Then went on to find out why paper had a limit. The answer is each time paper is folded there is less paper left to contribute to the next folding. A lot of complex math was reduced to the final formulas on her web site. She published the work to have it critiques by college professors and skeptics who agreed with her results. The paper is increased in thickness by double each time it is folded in half.Look the diagrams carefully at her site and you will see how the edges of folded paper are not actually contributing to the actual stacked folding. The number of times a piece of paper, or other non compressible material, is not 7 but only limited by the dimensions of the paper. She folded paper and gold in half twelve times. She was a consultant to the Mythbusters TV program that folded 17 taped sheets of paper some 11 times.
ByCutting paper inhalf then takes the leftmost piece and cuts that inhalf and so on Without reachin the last cut Assume this could be done in a finitetime How many pieces wouldit endup with?
You start with one piece of paper. With each cut you increase the number of pieces by one - whether or not you cut in half. So, at the end of the process you have as many pieces as the number of cuts you made and that, in turn, depends on the rate at which you cut the paper and the time available - neither of which are given in the question.
How do you fold a piece of paper 10 times?
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How many times can you fold an A4 piece of paper in half?
you can fold a 4 piece in half 5 times
How many times can an a4 piece of paper be folded in half?
Any paper can be folded in half for 6 times.
If you fold a piece of paper in half 50 times how tall would it be?
You can't fold a piece of paper 50 times
If you fold a piece of paper in half fifty times how many pieces of paper will you get?
you are folding it, there is still only one piece of paper
How many times can a piece of a4 paper be folded in half?
Any size sheet of paper can only be folded in half 7 times.
Can paper be folded in half more than 7 times?
A standard piece of paper cannot be folded 7 times, but the Mythbusters folded a hangar sized piece of paper 11 times.
What is the width of a piece of paper?
The answer depends on the piece of paper. You can cut it in half lengthways: it will still be a piece of paper but its width will be half as large!
If you fold a piece of paper in half 9 times how many sections would there be?
512
If you folded a peice of paper 50 times and the thickness was .1 mm when you started how thick would it be?
It is physically impossible to fold a piece of paper in half more than 8 times. However, assuming you could do it (though it would be easier to cut the pile so far in half and put one half on top of the other), then: After 1 fold the stack has 2 sheets After 2 folds the stack has 4 sheets After 3 folds the stack has 8 sheets After n folds the stack has 2^n sheets After 50 folds the stack will be 2⁵⁰ sheets thick As each sheet is 0.1mm, the stack will be: 2⁵⁰ × 0.1 mm = 112589990684262.4 mm thick = 112589990.6842624 km thick ≈ 1.126 × 10¹¹ m thick
What is the height of a piece of paper folded in half once?
The height of a piece of paper folded in half once is half of its original height.
If you could fold a piece of paper fifty times would it be higher than Mount Everest?
Theoretically, yes, as each fold would increase the height of the stack by 100%. After 12 folds a paper stack is typically 2 feet high. If you plug this into a formula - and mind you these are my own private calculations and can be wrong - and anticipate 50 folds, the stack would tower 549,755,813,888 feet (104,120,419.3 miles), which would not only dwarf Mount Everest (29,029 ft) but exceed the circumference of the Earth itself (24,901.55 miles) by several times. As a point of interest, the current world record for folding a piece of paper of any size consecutively in half is only 12 times.
Can you only fold paper 7 times?
yes if it is not in half, but if you you mean in half, then: A normal piece of paper, no. The width becomes to thick and the length too small. But here are some websites where they get a huge piece of paper so the length doesn't become too small, and they can do it 11 or 12 times: http://pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/07/23/why-cant-you-fold-a-piece-of-paper-more-than-seven-times/
