A single sheet of copier paper is approximately 1x 10^-4 meters thick. An office worker stacks 10 reams of paper in a corner. Ten reams is 5 x10^3pieces of paper. How tall is this stack of paper (in meters)?

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Answer:

The answer to your question is: 0.5 meters

Step-by-step explanation:

Data

a single sheet thick = 1 x 10⁻⁴ meters

# of reams = 10

Ten reams = 5 x 10³ pieces of paper

How tall is this stack of paper?

Rule of three

                     1 sheet of paper ----------------------   1 x 10⁻⁴ meters

                  5 x 10³ sheets       ----------------------            x

               x = ( 5 x 10³)(1 x 10⁻⁴) / 1

              x = 0.5 meters

Using the given information, the stack of paper is 0.5 meter tall

Calculating the height of a stack of paper

From the question, we are to calculate the height of the stack of paper

From the given information,

A single sheet of copier paper is approximately 1×10⁻⁴ meters thick

Now, we are to determine the height of 10 reams of paper

10 reams of paper has 5×10³ pieces of paper

Then,

The height of 10 reams of paper will be

5×10³ × 1×10⁻⁴ meters

= 5 × 10³⁻⁴

= 5 × 10⁻¹

= 0.5 meter

Hence, the height of the stack of paper is 0.5 meter

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