Question

The comparison of the number of atoms in a copper coin the size of a penny with the number of people on Earth is used to

illustrate which of the following:
that atoms are indivisible
that atoms are very small
that atoms are very large
thatina copper penny, there is one atom for every person on Earth

Answer 1

Probably it was ment to illustrate how significant and indivisible, being very small, atoms are and how each of them under normal conditions of presure and temperature find their own place eventually

Answer 2

The correct answer is "that atoms are very small".

Step-by-step explanation:

Comparing the number of atoms in a penny, with the number of people on Earth is used to illustrate that atoms are very small. This comparison helps the reader to think themselves as if they would be atoms, they would be so small that a copper coin the size of a penny would be the Earth for them. For instance, the atoms are so small that a human is the size of the Sun for them.