12.4k views
3 votes
Would you rather have Option A or Option B?OPTIONOPTIONB10aenteA0098500 grams of quarters1 kilogram of nickels

Would you rather have Option A or Option B?OPTIONOPTIONB10aenteA0098500 grams of quarters-example-1
User Ayla
by
7.9k points

1 Answer

1 vote

We want to know which one of the following will contain more money:

0. 500 grams of quarters

,

1. 1 kilogram of nickels

We are going to find the approximate quantity of quarters on 500 grams, and the quantity of nickels on 1 kilogram, having on mind that the average nickel weights 5 grams and the average quarter weights 5.67 grams.

We will divide the weight by the weight of a quarter or a nickel, and we obtain:


(500g)/(5.67g)=88.18\text{ quarters}

Which is approximately 88 quarters. For the nickels:


(1,000g)/(5g)=200\text{ nickels}

Now, converting the nickels and the quarters to cents we obtain:


\begin{gathered} \text{For the 88 quarters: }88\cdot25c=2200\text{ cents} \\ \text{For the 200 nickels: }200\cdot5c=1000\text{ cents} \end{gathered}

This means that is better to have 500 grams of quarters than 1 kilogram of nickels.

User Aace
by
9.7k points

No related questions found

Welcome to QAmmunity.org, where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of our community.

9.4m questions

12.2m answers

Categories