Question

A lab group measured the thickness of 500 sheets of copy paper to be 5.15 cm. Based on this measurement the thickness of one sheet of paper should be recorded as:

Answer 1

The thickness of one sheet of paper should be recorded as: 0.0103 cm

Explanation:

This problem can be solved applying a direct rule of three:

If 500 sheets have a thickness of ___________ 5.15 cm

1 sheet will have a thickness of ___________ X cm

X= (1 * 5.15) / 500

X= 0.0103 cm