If a major asteroid collision in the asteroid belt occurs once every 100,000 years on average, then how many major collisions have occurred over the approximately 4.5 billion year history of the solar system?

A) about 45,000
B) about 4.5 million
C) about 4.5 billion
D) about 4500


A) about 45,000

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