SOLUTION: If it takes half second (1/2) to count a dollar bill, how many days would it take to count half a million dollar ($5000,000)? what I did was: 500,000/1days=1hr/24hrs=60min/1

Question 1026985: If it takes half second (1/2) to count a dollar bill, how many days would it take to count half a million dollar ($5000,000)?
what I did was:
500,000/1days=1hr/24hrs=60min/1min=2.5days
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If it takes half second (1/2) to count a dollar bill, how many days would it take to count half a million dollar ($500,000)?
what I did was:
500,000/1days=1hr/24hrs=60min/1min=2.5days
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It is useful to know

1 day = 24 hours = 24*3600 seconds = 86400 seconds.

To count half a million dollar ($500,000), you need  = 250000 seconds, according to the condition.

Now you need to find how many days are in 250000 seconds.

For it, divide 250000 seconds by 86400 seconds.


 = 2.8935 days.

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