One evening you are standing outside by a palm tree. The palm tree is 40 feet tall. Your are 2 meters tall. What is your scale compared to the palm tree? Above the palm tree is the moon. You note that the moon looks to be about 2 inches in diameter. The actual diameter of the moon is 2,159 miles. What scale are you viewing the moon? The moon is 384,402 kilometers away, on average. What is your scale compared to that distance?

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