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How Big is a Billion?Slide2
If you had a billion gold scorpions, how many lengths of the Sahara desert could you go across? Slide3
Length of Gold Scorpion: 3 inches.
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3 inches 2.54 cm 7.62 cm
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1 1 inch 1Slide4
Length of the Sahara Desert: 4,800 km
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4800 km 1000 m 100 cm 480,000,000 cm
----------- x ------------- x ---------------- = ---------------------- = 480,000,000 cm
1 1 km 1 m 1Slide5
Scorpion Length One billion
7.62 cm x 1,000,000,000
= 7,620,000,000 cm
One Billion Scorpion Lengths
7,620,000,000 cm÷ 480,000,000 cm = 15. 875
(length of a billion scorpions) (length of Sahara Desert)MATHSlide6
If you had a billion Gold Scorpions you could cover 16 lengths of the Sahara desert in Africa. Slide7
Another example…Slide8
If you had a billion baseballs, how many times could you go around the world?Slide9
Diameter of a Baseball
The average MLB baseball is 76 mm in diameter
76 mm .1 cm
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7.6 cm 1 cm 1mm Slide10
Diameter of the World
The circumference of the world is 40,075 km
40,075 km 100,000 cm
-------------- X ---------------- = 4,007,500,000 cm
1 cm 1 kmSlide11
Math
7.6 cm x 1,000,000,000 = 7,600,000,000 cm
Baseball diameter x 1 Billion = Length of 1 Billion Baseballs
7,600,000,000 cm ÷
4,007,500,000 cm Length of 1 Billion Baseballs ÷ Circumference of World =
1.89 timesSlide12
If you had a billion baseballs you could go across the circumference of the world 2 times.Slide13
And One More….Slide14
A
billion grains of sand is equal to how many pandas in weight
?Slide15
The Math
One male Giant panda = 220lbs = 100 kg
42 grains of sand = 0.01 grams
42 grains = 0.01grams1 grain = .00024 grams1000 grams = 1 kg1 Giant Panda = 1,000,000 gramsOne billion grains of sand = 2,400,000 grams
Since one Giant Panda is 1,000,000 grams, it would equal up to be 2.4 Giant Panda’s. Slide16
So, a
billion grains of sand
equals the mass of 2.4 Giant
Pandas!