SOLUTION: The planet Earth is 5 billion years old (a billion is one thousand million). Life first evolved on Earth around 4 billion years ago. The species Homo Sapiens is around 1 million ye

Question 253912: The planet Earth is 5 billion years old (a billion is one thousand million). Life first evolved on Earth around 4 billion years ago. The species Homo Sapiens is around 1 million years old. Imagine that the 5 billions years of Earth's existence is represented by one single year starting on January 1'st and ending December 31'st.
(a).(Please enter month (write out the word), then date, then time, then am or pm) What date will it be?
(b). The earliest civilizations of which we have records are no more than 10,000 years old. What date and time does this corresond to?
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The planet Earth is 5 billion years old (a billion is one thousand million).
Life first evolved on Earth around 4 billion years ago.
The species Homo Sapiens is around 1 million years old.
Imagine that the 5 billions years of Earth's existence is represented by one single year starting on January 1'st and ending December 31'st.
:
(a).(Please enter month (write out the word), then date, then time, then am or pm) What date will it be?
(b). The earliest civilizations of which we have records are no more than 10,000 years old. What date and time does this correspond to?
:
= .0063072 sec = 1 yr
then
.0063072 * 10000 = 63.072 sec is 10,000 years
:
63 sec before midnight Dec 31st:
:
Dec 31, 11:58:57 PM, earliest civilization time
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