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A stack of 500 sheets paper is 3 inches in height. What is the thickness of one sheet of paper, in inches? Answer with supporting work:
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A stack of 500 sheets paper is 3 inches in height. What is the thickness of one sheet of paper, in inches? Answer with supporting work:

User Glauco Neves
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I might be wrong, but the answer I got was
0.096 inches.
An inch is broken up into 16 parts.
3 in * 16 = 48 parts of 3 inches.
48/500 = 0.096
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