SOLUTION: In Bio 111 you learned that human hair can vary in diameter, but one estimate of the average diameter is 50 microns, how many 10-nanometer particles could be stacked across the dia

Question 1036172: In Bio 111 you learned that human hair can vary in diameter, but one estimate of the average diameter is 50 microns, how many 10-nanometer particles could be stacked across the diameter of a human hair?
Found 2 solutions by Aldorozos, stanbon:
Answer by Aldorozos(172) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
50 microns equivalent of 50,000 nanometer
http://www.unitconversion.org/length/microns-to-nanometers-conversion.html
50,000/10 = 5000
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
In Bio 111 you learned that human hair can vary in diameter, but one estimate of the average diameter is 50 microns, how many 10-nanometer particles could be stacked across the diameter of a human hair?
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50 microns = 50*10^-6 = 5.0*10-5
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10 nanometers = 10*10^-9 = 1*10^-8
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Ans::: (5*10-5)/(10^-8) = 5*10^3 = 5000
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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