SOLUTION: I have 7,737,809,375 easter eggs placed on a road. If I pass 8 every second, how long will it take before I reach the last one?

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Question 979288: I have 7,737,809,375 easter eggs placed on a road. If I pass 8 every second, how long will it take before I reach the last one?

Found 2 solutions by Boreal, solver91311:
Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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7737809375/8=
967226171 1/7 seconds. There are about a billion seconds in 31 years, and there are about 10,000 days in 27 years and 86,400 seconds in a day. Divide by 86,400
11194.74 days
divide by 365.25 days/year
30.649 years
about 30 years and 7 1/2 months.

Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
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30 years, 237 days, 11 hours, 33 minutes, 12 seconds -- give or take a few hundredths of a second, assuming a mean solar year equal to 365.242199 days.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it