Anybody Know...
How many pennies you can put in an otherwise empty five gallon water bottle?
Friday, June 10, 2005
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A lot.
Let's see...
128 ounces in a gallon x 5 gallons = 640 ounces x 11 pennies/ounce = 7,040 pennies or $70.40.
But! Until 1982, pennies weighed 1/9 ounce. This means that you could only fit 5,760 pennies in your water jug, or $57.60.
I say split the difference and call it around 6,500 pennies. Fill the sucker and you've got yourself a cool 65 bucks.
That sounds fabulous except that fluid ounces (of which there are 128 in a gallon) and ounces as a measurement of weight (to the tune of 11 pennies per) are not the same thing. In the case of water, they're close (the imperial ounce is closer), but I'd bet a cool 11 cents that the 1982 penny got lighter but not smaller.
So the same number of pennies will fit regardless of the mint year, and we're back to not knowing how many that is. By some strange cosmic joke, it will probably come out to about 65 bucks.
what if you melted the pennies?
Like in the microwave? And we could make one huge penny? I like the cut of your jib.
no one's determined the # of square inches of the water jug and determined how many pennies will fit by the size of the penny vs the size of the jug? circumference X height / some random number? or something?
i can't believe i ever aced calculus. don't remember a bloomin' thing from it. hell my brain's already tired from thinking about it and i don't even care.
Speaking as a former bank teller who has seen plenty of pennies, I'd say about 65 bucks worth.
There we go.
I knew it.
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