The dimensions of a dollar bill are 15.5956 cm by 6.6294 cm by 0.010922 cm. The U.S. federal government spent $3.8 trillion in fiscal year 2011.
a.) How high, in km, would be a stack of dollar bills that contains the money spent by the U.S. federal government in 2011?
b.) An Olympic swimming pool is 50 m long, 25 m wide, and 1.5 m deep. How many Olympic pools would be filled by the dollar bills spent by the U.S. federal government in 2011
c.) A $100 bill has the same dimensions as a $1 bill. An episode of Breaking Bad shows three wooden platforms that each held a stack of $100 bills measuring approximately 1m 3 1m3 . What, approximately, would be the value of those three stacks if they contained real $100 bills?
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