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Approximate Lengths
Some Approximate Lengths
Question | Answer |
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Circumference of the earth | 4x10^7 |
New York to Los Angeles | 5x10^6 |
Distance you can drive in 1 hour | 1x10^5 |
Altitude of jet planes | 1x10^4 |
Distance across a college campus | 1000 |
Length of a football field | 100 |
Length of a class room | 10 |
length of your arm | 1 |
Width of a textbook | .1 |
Length of your little fingernail | .01 |
Diameter of a pencil lead | 1x10^-3 |
Thickness of a sheet of paper | 1x10^-4 |
Diameter of a dust particle | 1x10^-5 |