Question

A credit card is about 3×10

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2 inches thick. A piece of construction paper is about 6×10
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3 inches thick.
Use these numbers to complete the sentence below. Write your answer in standard form, without using exponents.
A credit card is about
times as thick as a piece of construction paper.

Answer 1

Therefore, a credit card is about 3.33 times as thick as a piece of construction paper.

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer 2

To find how many times thicker a credit card is compared to a piece of construction paper, we can divide the thickness of the credit card by the thickness of the construction paper:

3×10

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2 inches ÷ 6×10

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3 inches

To divide these numbers, we can simplify by dividing both the numerator and denominator by 3×10

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3:

(3×10

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2 ÷ 3×10

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inches = (1×10

1

÷ 3) inches = 3.33... inches

Therefore, a credit card is about 3.33 times as thick as a piece of construction paper.