document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=563190>Question 563190</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> which would i prefer\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "a. a pound of pennies or a 6 inch stack of quarters?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "b. a 3 inch stack of quarters or a yard of nickels end to end?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "c. 4 dollars or 4 pounds of pennies.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "i need to choose one </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Depending on the year the penny was made there are roughly 140 to 180 pennies per pound, so you can says that a pound of pennies is worth approximately $1.60.  8 quarters $2.00 so that is all you would need to have to make sure you had more value than a pound of pennies.  Quarters are about 0.069 inches thick, so 8 of them would make a stack just slightly greater than a half inch.  A six inch stack of quarters is nearly 12 times that.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "3 inch stack of quarters is 3 divided by 0.069 quarters.  Nickels measure 0.8125 inches across, so a yard of nickels end to end is 36 divided by 0.8125.   Do the arithmetic and you decide which you would like to have.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Since a pound of pennies is about $1.60, the answer to the last question should be obvious.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it<BR>\n" );
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