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suppose you want to line pennies up, diameter to diameter, until the total length is 1 kilometer. assume the width of 1 penny is 2 cm. how many pennies will you need? how accurate is this estimation?

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Answer: 50,000 pennies

Step-by-step explanation: there are 100,000 centimeters in a kilometer, since a penny is 2 centimeters in length, divide 100,000 by 2 t get 50,000

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