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Sat 13 Feb, 2010 01:16 am
In films when a kidnapper asks for a million dollars to be paid in $50 bills you often see the cash being put into a huge sack, but this doesn't seem right to me.
Since $1,000,000 is 20,000 bills I wouldn't have thought it would take up much space at all, but I've no idea how thick a $50 bill is.
Any idea?
a "flat" is a bundle of notes. 10 x $50.00 = $500.00
My banking experienced wife says there are always 10 notes in a flat.
now make an estimate of the size of a flat.
remember new notes will take up slightly less space than old notes.
@lovejoy,
allow me to inspect your cash
gotta love 1378 cubic inches
point 8 of a cubic foot
.0043 inches per thick enough for you
@dadpad,
10 bills isn't much of a "bundle"??
@lovejoy,
My question would be why would you ask for only one million dollars? You could easily get double that. Or be creative. Demand $3,456,789.23, and demand they give it to you in the lowest number of bills and coins combination with an even number of bills and an odd number of coins.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_thickness_of_a_dollar_bill
I think that this assumes that the dollar bills are compressed pretty tightly. The smallest you could get is a stack that would be 86 inches or a little over 7 feet tall.
The smallest volume you could squeeze 20,000 bills into is 86 * 2.61 * 6.14 or 1378 cubic inches or 0.8 cubit feet.
That means if carefully compressed it would fit into a box 1 foot by 1 foot by 9 inches. If you just threw the money in, the volume would be much higher.
EDIT (my first calculation of cubic feet was off by an factor of 12).
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