1. Space travel is expensive! For their trip to the Moon, the Apollo astronauts' living quarters...

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1. Space travel is expensive! For their trip to the Moon, theApollo astronauts' living quarters were only 213 cubic feet (that'ssmaller than a typical small bathroom in a house). How many dollarbills could fit in there?
The room in the top half of the image is the laboratory. At thelower left is the sleeping area, lower center is bathroom, andlower right is the living area. (Image from NASA).
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Would a stack of dollar bills in the amount of the U.S. nationaldebt reach from the Earth to the Moon?
No, not by a long shot.
No, but almost.
Yes, barely.
Yes, it reaches to the Moon and nearly back to the Earth.
Yes, it could make the round trip to the Moon and back twicewith enough bills left over to return to the Moon a third time.
3. Pluto has been hard to measure from Earth because of itsatmosphere. In 2007 Young, Young, and Buie measured Pluto as havinga diameter of 2322 km. In 2015 the New Horizons probe reached Plutoand measured it up close and we now know the actual diameter is2372 km. What was the percent error of the 2007 measurement?
Enter your answer as a percent, with a negative value if the2007 measurement was too small and a positive value if it was toolarge.

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		No, not by a long shot.
		No, but almost.
		Yes, barely.
		Yes, it reaches to the Moon and nearly back to the Earth.
		Yes, it could make the round trip to the Moon and back twicewith enough bills left over to return to the Moon a third time.