Final answer:
To understand how high a trillion dollars in $100 bills would stack on a football field, we need to calculate the total number of $10,000 stacks that make up one trillion and then find the height this sum would reach when spread across the field.
Step-by-step explanation:
The question pertains to understanding vast numbers and their representations. One trillion dollars is an incomprehensibly large amount, and it can be difficult to grasp through direct comparison to smaller units like one billion. To make this concept more tangible, suppose you have a trillion dollars in $100 bills. A single stack of these bills, as seen in movies or at a bank, has 100 bills and is worth $10,000. If we want to calculate how high the money pile would be if laid out on a football field, we first need to determine how many stacks constitute one trillion dollars.
One trillion is $1,000,000,000,000, and given that each stack is $10,000, you would have 100 million stacks of $100 bills to make up one trillion dollars. To find out how high these stacks would pile on a standard American football field (which is 360 feet by 160 feet, excluding end zones), we would set the total volume of the money (the number of stacks times the volume of a single stack) equal to the area of the football field multiplied by the unknown height. This approximation will give us an idea as to whether the pile would be mere inches or several feet high.