Question 166173: Would you rather have a kilometer of quarters or a kilometer of dimes? (in a straight line, with the heads up). How much better is your choice?
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Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Well I guess we have to count how many of each are in a kilometer.
From a GOOGLE search, I found the following information,
dime:1.35 mm thickness
quarter:1.75 mm thickness
Let's assume it's correct.
So 1 km, which equals (1000)(1000)mm, there are this many dimes,
Each dime is $0.10, so the total in 1 km is,
Similarly for the quarters,
Fewer of them, but what about the total value,
Wow, it's almost double.
The exact difference is
$68,783 difference between the two coin kilometers.
That's a lot of coin wrappers!
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