How much does one thousand pennies weigh?

Answer 1

Activity #2: One million pennies

1. Making a guess based on your knowledge right now, how much do you think one million pennies would weigh?

2. Given that a roll of 50 pennies weighs 125 grams (without the paper), how much do one million pennies weigh? Use appropriate units, and show your work using the Unit Analysis process.

Answer 2

It depends on their dates.

Cents minted up to the middle of 1982 are bronze and weigh 3.11 grams

Cents minted from mid-1982 to the present are copper-plated zinc and weigh 2.5 gm.

It's not easy to tell the 1982s apart, so you'd have to decide which date range you wanted to use and eliminate all 1982 coins.

For pennies made before 1982 one 100 would weigh around .7 pounds. For pennies made 1982-to present 100 would weigh around .6 pounds.
The UK decimal penny weighs 3.56 grammes.

So 100 weigh 356 grammes, or just over 1/3 kilogram.

Answer 3

A pound weighs a pound unless you're in space where it seems to weigh nothing. I guess you should ask the right question which would look more like; " How many pennies in a pound?" Or better yet," How much is a pound of pennies worth?" I suggest that you skip the middle man and ask "Where is the nearest Coin Star?"

BTW it's 165 (approx. depending on wear and year of mint) per pound.

Answer 4

That would depend on the size of the box, and if the box was full.

One Canadian penny weighs 2.3 g, a single American penny weighs 2.5 grams.

Answer 5

About 1.1 pounds.

Answer 6

5,580 pounds

Answer 7

250 grams or alittle over a half pound

Answer 8

6.25 pounds

Answer 9

I have no idea

Answer 10

20 pounds