Question

A typical thickness for a sheet of paper is 0.004 inches. If you fold a sheet of paper once, the thickness of the folded paper will double to a value of 0.008 inches. A second fold will result in a folded thickness of 0.016 inches. Create a spreadsheet that shows the number of folds from 0 to 50 and the resulting thickness of each fold. Calculate the resulting thickness in units of inches, feet, and miles.

Answer 1

Please see the pictures attached below

The first picture has the values and the second has the formulas to construct the spreadsheet.

Step-by-step explanation:

To construct the spreadsheet you should do the following:

1. First name the four columns as:

Number of folds

Thickness in inches

Thickness in feet

Thickness in miles

2. In the first column "Number of folds" put the numbers from 0 to 50 in order to calculate the thickness of each fold.

3. In the second column "Thickness in inches" put the following formula to show that each fold of a sheet is equal to multiply by 2 the original fold:

Thickness in inches = (thickness in inches(number of folds-1))*2

When the number of folds is 1, the formula will be:

Thickness in inches = 0.000 * 2 = 0.000

When the number of folds is 2, the formula will be:

Thickness in inches = 0.004 * 2 = 0.008

When the number of folds is 3, the formula will be:

Thickness in inches = 0.008 * 2 = 0.016

When the number of folds is 4, the formula will be:

Thickness in inches = 0.016 * 2 = 0.032

And so on until 50.

3. In the third column you only multiply by 0.08333 the value of inches to convert it to feet.

4. And in the fourth column you should multiply the value of inches by 0.0000157828 to convert it to miles.