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A penny is about 1/16th of an inch thick. The distance from the moon to the earth is about 239,000 miles. What is the exact number of pennies needed to be in a stack in order to reach the moon?

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Answer:

15,143,040,000 (fifteen trillion one hundrend fourty-three billion fourty thousand

Explanation:

for every mile their are 63360 inches.

63360*239,000=15143040000

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