Don is folding paper airplanes for a competition. He folds each airplane using a fraction of a standard piece of paper. Don has 5 pieces of paper, and he uses 1/4 of each piece to make an airplane. Each airplane requires 6 folds to complete.

Question

Don is folding paper airplanes for a competition. He folds each airplane using a fraction of a standard piece of paper. Don has 5 pieces of paper, and he uses 1/4 of each piece to make an airplane. Each airplane requires 6 folds to complete.

Part 1: How many airplanes can Don make using the 5 pieces of paper?

Part 2: If each fold doubles the thickness of the paper, how many times thicker is the folded paper compared to a single unfolded piece?

Answer 1

Part 1:

If Don uses 1/4 of each piece of paper to make an airplane, he is using 1/4 * 5 = <<1/4*5=1.25>>1.25 pieces of paper.
Since Don cannot use 1/4 of a piece of paper, he can only make 1 airplane.

Part 2:
Each fold doubles the thickness of the paper, so after 6 folds, the paper is 2^6 = <<2^6=64>>64 times thicker than a single unfolded piece. Answer: \boxed{64}.