SOLUTION: Magic Penny Parable. Answer question.
16. Suppose you keep making a single stack of pennies. After how many days would the stack be long enough to reach the nearest star (beyond
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: Magic Penny Parable. Answer question.
16. Suppose you keep making a single stack of pennies. After how many days would the stack be long enough to reach the nearest star (beyond the sun), which is about 4.3 light-years (4.0 x 10^13 km)away? (Proceed by trial and error).
This question is from textbook Essentials of using and understanding mathematics
Answer by checkley71(8403) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
IN ORDER TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM YOU NEED TO STATE THE THICKNESS OF A PENNY & HOW MANY PENNIES ARE STACKED PER DAY.
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