80 billion dollars and where to put it
... How much room would it take to store $80,000,000,000 single dollar bills. ... Next, I wanted to see if I could fit $80,000,000,000 dollars into a classroom. ... I already knew that it took $1200 dollar bills in 1 foot, so to find out how many dollar bills in 9 foot, I only had to multiply the 2 numbers · 9 foot high x $1200 (dollars in 1 foot high) = $10,800 dollar bills to reach 9 foot high So now I knew that I had 960 square feet in a classroom, 9.6 dollar bills would be needed to cover 1 square foot, and $10,800 dollars on top of each of those 1 dollar bills to reach the ceiling. ... 6 x $10,800 = $99,532,800 (Ninety nine million, 532 thousand, eight hundred dollars! ... But that didn’t even come close to 80 billion. ... So my question was how many classrooms would it take to hold 80 billion dollars? To find this I divided the 80 billion dollars by the amount of dollar bills it took to fill 1 classroom to find out how many classrooms were needed to store the full 80 billion dollar bills. · $80,000,000,000 - $99,532,800 = 803. ... This was an even bigger number than the classrooms but still not 80 billion. So I wanted to see how many schools our size would be needed to store 80 billion dollar bills. So once again, I divded the 80 billion dollars by the total dollars it took to fill our school and that would tell me how many schools I would need for the 80 billion dollars. · $80,000,000,000 - $6,220,800,000 = 12.86… Therefore, it would take almost 13 of our schools to store $80 billion dollars. ... · $5,282,807,040 + $2,813,972,400 = $8,096,779,440 to fill the whole school STILL not 80 billion, but 8 billion. So to figure out how many schools it would take to store $80 billion dollars I had to once again divide the total number (80 billion) by the number it took to fill 1 school. ... · $80,000,000,000 - $8,096,779,440 = 9.88 schools to store 80 billion dollars