Project: National Debt

Project

Scenario:

Jupiter Images Images Corp.

The United States National Debt is approaching
$12.3 Trillion ($12,300,000,000,000)

How much money is the national debt?

I. Use Dimensional Analysis to calculate how tall a stack of one dollar bills would be in miles
to equal the national debt. Show all your work listing the names of each dimension used.

II. How many round trips to the moon and back are the miles calculated in Problem I?

DIMENSIONS

A stack of dollar bills 1 inch tall = $150	JupiterImages Corp.
JupiterImages Corp.	12 inches = 1 foot
5,280 feet = 1 mile	JupiterImages Corp.
Approximately 239,000 miles from the Earth to the Moon	JupiterImages Corp.

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