Everybody knows that a piece of paper isn't thick at all but can something so thin add up over time? This is one of the things that will hopefully be answered in my fermi problemy. My questions is if you stacked all the homework papers that one harwood eighth grader gets in one school year how tall would the stack be? I chose this question because I often hear kids saying "I have piles of work to do" Is this just people being dramatic or is there some truth this? I want to know how much homework do we do every year.
To find the answer to my problem I must first answer the following questions.
How thick is the average piece of paper?
On average how many sheets of homework does the average harwood middle school student get each night?
How long is our school year?
I know that 500 sheets of papers makes an inch. I learned that harwood school year is 170 days. From Ms. Curren I learned that the average 8th grader gets 2-3 pages of homework each night. I estimate that 2 to 3 pages is about 2.5 pages. If I calculate the thickness of a sheet of paper by dividing an inch by 500 (papers) it would come out to be 0.002 . My sources were Mrs. Current, Mrs Therrein and mathforum.org.
To solve this in a mathematical formula first I would put all of my data into fractions. The fractions should be set up so that I end with the amount of pages over one year
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