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Question of the day: HOW MUCH IS $787 Billion??? Dr. Robert J. Rapalje, Semi-Retired Seminole State College of Florida Sanford, FL 32773
February 14, 2009 The President and Congress of the USA are in the process of passing an $787 Billion Stimulus/Spending Bill? MATH Question: If $787 billion in $1 bills are neatly stacked in a single stack, how tall would the stack be? If these were $20 bills, how tall would the stack be??
METRIC SOLUTION:
According to WikiAnswers and other sources, the thickness of a dollar bill is 0.0043 inches or (multiplying times 2.54 cm per inch) 0.011 cm. or 0.00011 meter. This
means that you can stack
To
see how many kilometers it takes to form a stack of a
BILLION dollars,
divide Multiply this times 787 billion, and the calculation comes to about 86,600 kilometers, which is over twice the distance around the earth at the equator! If this were $20 bills, instead of $1 bills, assuming the same thickness of the bills, divide this answer by 20, and you have a pile of $20 bills that is 43,300 kilometers high!
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