Apage from a story book has a thickness of 2.5•10-² centimeter and a page from a dictionary has a thickness of 5•10-³ centimeter. which book has a thicker page? how much thicker is the page?

A page from a story book is thicker. It is thicker by .

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

Thickness of a page from story book =

Thickness of a page from a dictionary =

Now, in order to compare the thickness of both the pages, we have to rewrite their measurements in same exponents of 10.

Exponent of 10 for story book is -2 and exponent of 10 for dictionary is -3.

Let us rewrite the measurement of page from dictionary.

Now, thickness of a page from dictionary is while thickness from story book's page is  .

Clearly, a page from story book is thicker as 2.5 is greater than 0.5.

Now, difference in thickness is:

Therefore, a page from story book is thicker than a page from dictionary by a difference of .

7 weeks

step-by-step explanation:

convert each fraction to the least common multiple of 20, so 3/4 = 15/20 & 1/10 = 2/20, then divide 15 by 2 and you get a little over 7, so the food will last 7 weeks.

m a t h w a y. c o m

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