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If you represent Earth’s history by a line that is 1 m long, how long a segment would represent the 400 million years since life first moved onto the land? How long a segment would represent the 4-millionyear history of humanoid life?
The length of the segment that would represent
Answer to Problem 2P
The length of the segment for the history of the Earth is calculated as
Explanation of Solution
The expression to calculate the length of the line segment is,
Here,
The expression to calculate the length of the line segment is,
Here,
Conclusion:
Substitute
Solve further as,
Substitute
Solve further as,
Therefore, the length of the segment for the history of the Earth is calculated as
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