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A typical thickness for a sheet of paper is 0.004 inches. if you fold a sheet of paper once, thethickness of the folded paper will doubleto a value of 0.008 inches. a second fold willresult in a folded thickness of 0.016 inches. create a spreadsheet that shows the number offolds from 0 to 50 and the resulting thickness of each fold. calculate the resulting thicknessin units of inches, feet, and miles.with each fold the value will doubleso as you get to a greater number of folds you can expect large numbers

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See the figure below for your spreadsheet.
inches = 0.004*2^n
feet = inches/12
miles = feet/5280
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It is pretty much impossible to fold an ordinary sheet of paper in half 8 times.
A typical thickness for a sheet of paper is 0.004 inches. if you fold a sheet of paper-example-1
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