FOLDING PAPER

!. If you take a sheet of notebook paper and fold it 40 times ( if you could) how thick would it be?

2. How many Folds would it take to reach the height of a 3 foot table?

3. How many Folds would it take to reach your height?

4. How many folds would it take to reach the sun?

HINT: You may assume that a ream of paper (500 sheets) is 2 inches thick. Determine the thickness of a single sheet of this paper. Now GO.....

Be sure that you show your data: # of folds ( input) and thickness ( output)

Show the pattern that you observe

Identify the type of function.

what is the initial value?, what is the ratio?