#NCW Mole Day Trivia

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Question:  Suppose you had one Avogadro’s number of dollars. You decide to give away $1000 per second per person to every person on the planet. Assuming the earth’s population is 7 billion people, how long would it take you to give away all your money?

16 Responses to “#NCW Mole Day Trivia”

1. Cathy Utterback says:

   October 23, 2012 at 5:12 pm

   Approximately 2727 years.

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2. dona thomas says:

   October 23, 2012 at 5:47 pm

   approximately 24 million hours 24 minutes or 3,000 years if you round up

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3. Melanie Cameron says:

   October 23, 2012 at 6:06 pm

   860,305,928,571 seconds. or 14338432142.9 minutes. or 238973869.048 hours. or 9957244.54365 days. or 27280.1220374 years.

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   • Miss Muse says:

     October 23, 2012 at 6:09 pm

     Covering all the bases! We love it.

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4. Heidi B. says:

   October 23, 2012 at 7:22 pm

   Assuming Avogadro’s Number is 6.022X10^23…

   86,042,857,140 seconds or 1,434,047,619 minutes or 23,900,793.65 hours or 995,866.4021 days or 2728.401102 years (w/ no leap years).

   Wow!

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5. Melissa Yard says:

   October 23, 2012 at 9:03 pm

   8.6 x 10^10 seconds. If you’re counting sig figs in your calculation then it’s really 9 x 10^10 seconds.

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6. Andy Holcombe says:

   October 23, 2012 at 9:23 pm

   8.603*10^10 s
   1.434*10^9 min
   9.957*10^5 day
   2726 years

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7. Melisa graves says:

   October 23, 2012 at 9:25 pm

   2728.18366311516996448502663584473973 years

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   • Melisa graves says:

     October 23, 2012 at 9:33 pm

     I did 365 per year and not the 365.25
     so closer to 2726.31632316779476259283975929727584 years

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8. Colette says:

   October 23, 2012 at 9:29 pm

   2727993404.36 years or…a really long time!

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9. MJ says:

   October 23, 2012 at 10:01 pm

   2727 years

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10. Thomas Lau says:

    October 23, 2012 at 11:26 pm

    The answer depends on if the federal government will tax my gift to everybody on this planet if that is true and if I don’t not compound the interest at 0.01% I would get from my grand deposit. The answer would be 40% faster at 2727 years or 1090 years

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11. nowsheen says:

    October 26, 2012 at 3:27 pm

    Assuming Avogadro`s number to be 6.02* 10^23, the answer is in 86 * 10^13 seconds or 1.433*10^12 minutes or 2.39*10^10 hours

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12. nowsheen says:

    October 26, 2012 at 3:28 pm

    Assuming Avogadro`s number to be 6.02* 10^23, the answer is in 8.6 * 10^13 seconds or 1.433*10^12 minutes or 2.39*10^10 hours

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13. Scott Boulding says:

    October 29, 2012 at 5:25 pm

    2726 years, 79 days, 10 hours, 5 minutes, 49.13 seconds — using 6.0221367×10^23 as Avogadro’s number and assuming 365.24 days per year.

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14. Kun says:

    December 2, 2012 at 3:03 pm

    1,14574E+15 years

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