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How much does does a ream of paper weigh?

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Paper in the United States is calculated as 500 sheets of bond paper with a size of 17" by 22" (ledger-size) as having a weight of 20 pounds. The manufacturer cuts a ledger-sheet into four 8 ½" by 11" (letter-size) sheets, so a 500 letter-size sheet ream of 20-pound bond paper weighs 5 pounds.

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It is 24 or 25 pieces of paper, it can depend. The definition of a quire is 1/20th of a 'ream'. A ream of writing paper is 500 sheets, a ream of 'short' paper is 480 sheets, hence the minor difference.


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Ream is the answer


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Sheets of paper are in a ream?

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