Comments on: How to Develop a Sense of Scale https://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-develop-a-sense-of-scale/ Math lessons that click Mon, 14 Dec 2020 04:40:40 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kimber timbers https://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-develop-a-sense-of-scale/#comment-347004 Thu, 09 Aug 2018 02:31:00 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-develop-a-sense-of-scale/#comment-347004 You could also compare billion vs million by weight.
1 billion milligrams would be 2,204 pounds.
1 million milligrams would be 2.2 pounds.

Or you could compare billion vs million by distance.
1 billion centimeters would be 6213.7 miles.
1 million centimeters would be 6.2 miles.

Billion vs million by Area:
A billion square inches would be 159.42 acres.
A million square inches would be roughly .16 acres

By ratio: 1 to 1000 is the ratio for 1 million verses 1 billion.
Or another way to look at it would be 1 cent for every $10.00.
Or one million = .1% of one billion (billion = 100%)

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]]> By: Anonymous https://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-develop-a-sense-of-scale/#comment-330312 Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:07:52 +0000 http://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-develop-a-sense-of-scale/#comment-330312 Good info. Misspelling on the word apprach.

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