It would take 42 times to fold an average 8.5 by 11 piece of paper to reach the moon!<3
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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
15 x 5 = 75 You can just add up 15 5 times on a piece of paper and their you go! :)
A 102 centimmeter board is cut into two pieces so that one piece is five times as the other . How long is each piece
Each time you fold paper, the number of layers is doubled.0 folds = 1 layer (original sheet) = 201 fold = 2 layers = 212 folds = 4 layers = 223 folds = 8 layers. = 23...etc, all the way to 50 folds. In other words, the number of layers increases exponentially.Following the pattern, If you could fold paper 50 times, the number of layers would equal:250 or 1,125,899,906,842,624 layers.
If you fold a piece of paper in half 50 times, you would get a stack of paper so thick that it would reach the sun and back multiple times, with a thickness much larger than the observable universe. It's a theoretical concept as it exceeds physical limits.
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yes the moon is 238,857 miles away whereas a piece of paper folded 50 times reaches over 200,000,000 miles so it would reach the moon (and then some) Edit: A piece of paper (lets use metric for this) is approx 0.1mm thick. Folding it 50 times will create a bundle (2^50)/10 mm thick, which is (1.12589907x10^15)/10 mm, or 1.12589907x10^14. Lets convert it to kilometers, through each step. Cm : 1.12589907x10^13 (divide by 10) M : 1.12589907x10^11 (divide by 100) Km : 1.12589907x10^8 (divide by 1000) So, the paper would be 1.12589907x10^8 km thick. The distance from the Earth to the Sun is only 1.496x10^8km. Therefore, the paper would reach the majority of the way to the Sun... it beat the moon by a long shot. Plus, if the paper were slightly thicker, (eg 0.11mm) it would reach, or even pass, the Sun quite easily.
A normal piece of paper is about 0.0038 inches thick. So, if the paper were to be folded 50 times, it would become, essentially, 1,125,899,906,842,624 pieces of paper stacked upon one another. Therefore, you would multiply the above number by 0.0038 and that would be 4278419646001.97 inches or 67,525,562.594 miles of paper. So, a normal 8 1/2 by 11 piece of paper folded 50 times would be 67,525,562.594 miles, which is 141 times the distance the Moon is to the Earth.
nope ive tried it :( multiple times....Well, it depends on what you mean. Of course you can fold a piece of paper lots of times. What you can not do is fold a piece of paper in half lots of times.Your typical piece of paper is about 0.1mm thick. Each fold in half doubles the thickness, so by the time you have folded it 7 times it is 2^7*0.1 mm thick, that's 12.8mm, call it 1/2 an inch thick. And by then your piece of paper is rather small. If it started 8 1/2 x 11, it is now 11/8 x 17/8 inches, or about 1 1/2 inches by 2 inches. (ignoring the size of he folds)The next fold would make it 1 inch thick, and the outside of the fold would be a half circle 1/2 inch radius using pi/2 inches of paper, call it 1 1/2 inches. This isn't going to work.
You can't fold a piece of paper 50 times
It would remain 1mm thick.
Paper in Egyptian times was called Papyrus's.
It depends, because the paper could be thicker than others.AnswerThe folded paper would be 1 x (250) times as thick as the original sheet as each fold doubles the thicknessAssuming the initial paper is 1/100 of an inch thick the last fold would make a wad of paper almost 200 million miles thick
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/
In theory, that peice of paper would be thick enough to accomplish the distance from earth to the moon.=================================as i said...in theory. but hypotheticallyit would just be a normal piece of paper that is 0.02cm thick.=================================Answer #2:The paper would still be the same thickness as it was before you folded it.But you're probably asking for the thickness of the big folded wad. Naturally,that depends on how thick the paper is before you start folding it.You haven't mentioned what kind of paper you'd like to use, so I can't actuallycalculate a thickness. All I can tell you is that whatever the thickness of thepaper is, the final folded form will be 250 = 1,125,899,907,000,000 times as thick(rounded to the nearest million times).20-lb bond, widely used for home printers, varies from about 0.0038 to 0.0045 inch thick. If I use 0.004 inch for convenience, and multiply it by the rounded number above, I get(0.004 in) x 250 = 4.5 x 1012 in = 3.8 x 1011 ft = 71 million miles, rounded,or just under 298 times the distance to the moon.(That's if you're careful to squeeze out all the air between the layers after you fold it.)