Question 1091500: (a) A ton of five-dollar bills is worth $4,540,000. How many pounds does a five-dollar bill weigh?
(b)A criminal claims to be carrying $5 million in twenty-dollar bills in a brief case. Is this possible? Why or Why not?
Found 3 solutions by Boreal, ankor@dixie-net.com, math_helper:
Answer by Boreal(15235)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! How many $5 in a ton? It is 4,540,000/5=908000
That many bills weigh 2000 pounds
units you want are pounds/bill
so divide 2000 pounds/908000 bills to get 0.0022 pounds per bill.
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$5000000/20=250000 bills
based on the above weight, that would weigh 550.7 pounds, which would not be very portable.
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740)  (Show Source):
Answer by math_helper(2461)  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
a) If a ton (2000lbs) is $4540000 then one bill is 2000lbs/($4540000/$5) = 0.002203 lbs per $5 bill (0.03524 oz or 1.00 gram).
b) Since a ton is only $4540000 in $5 bills, if we were to round up to $5 million worth of $5 bills, that would weigh about (500/454)*2000lbs or about 2200 lbs. A reasonable estimate of the weight in $20 bills is about one quarter of that: (1/4)(2200 lbs) or 550lbs. Who can carry around a 550lb briefcase? [ Even if there were a person who could carry it, the SIZE of the briefcase would be very cumbersome. ]
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I just googled for the size of $5 million in $20's and found this:
https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/proportions/Proportions.faq.question.977017.html
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