Activity #2: One million pennies
Making a guess based on your knowledge right now, how much do you think one million pennies would weigh?
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.
One penny weighs 2.5 grams, so 3,500 pennies weigh 8,750 grams.
A gallon of pennies weighs approximately 55 pounds.
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30000 pennies would weigh approximately 68.18 pounds.
One thousand one pound coins would weigh approximately 1,000 pounds, as each coin weighs about 1 pound.
One penny weighs 2.5 grams, so 3,500 pennies weigh 8,750 grams.
A gallon of pennies weighs approximately 55 pounds.
1 billion pennies would weigh 5,511,556.55 pounds. The weight of a penny is 2.5 grams
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100,000 pennies
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I am assuming you mean how many pennies are in a thousand dollars. To do this you simply take a thousand (1,000) and multiplying it by one hundred (pennies in a dollar, 100). By doing that, you get 100,000 pennies to equal $1,000.
One modern (post-1982) US cent weighs 2.5 grams, so 4,000 pennies weigh 10,000 grams, or 10 kg.
two thousand pounds
One penny weighs approximately 2.5 grams. Therefore, 1,500 pennies would weigh about 3,750 grams, which is equivalent to 3.75 kilograms or roughly 8.27 pounds.
30000 pennies would weigh approximately 68.18 pounds.
One cent (minted 1982-present) weighs 2.5 grams. 50 of them weigh 125 grams.