How many quarters would it take to stack to the top of the Sears Tower? Show your work.?

Answer 1

The Sears tower is 1451ft high to the top of its roof (this does not include the spires)

A quarter is 0.069in thick

1451 x 12 = 17412 (height of tower in inches)

17412 / 0.069 = 252347.826

So if you stacked up 252348 quarters, it would reach the roof of the Sears Tower. If you were to do the equation for the overall height of the Sears Tower's, including it's spires (1730ft), it would take 300870 quarters.

Answer 2

I looked on wikipedia, and found that the Sears Tower is 1707 feet tall. The depth of a quarter is .069 inches (assuming that you're stacking them like a normal roll of quarters, and not balancing them on each other). You need to convert feet to inches so that you are working with apples to apples. Since there are 12 inches in a foot, multiply 1707 by 12, getting 20484. Therefore, the Sears Tower is 20,484 inches tall.

Now, divide the height of the Sears Tower by the depth of a single quarter to see how many times .069 goes into 20484.

20484/.069

The answer is 296869.6, so that means that it would take 296,869 and a half quarters to reach the top of the Sears Tower!

Answer 3

Find the width of a quarter which you can find easily by doing a quick search
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geuvPTyMxFR1ABf8BXNyoA?p=width+of+a+u.s.+quarter&ei=UTF-8&fr=yie7c&x=wrt
(hint: it is the first result).

Then find the height of the Sears tower --- another quick search will give you the result http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=height+sears+tower&fr=yie7c

Now you have all the data you need to solve this problem. Put everthing in the same measurements i.e. everything into inches, and then divide the height of the Sears Tower by the height (thickness) of the quarter.

Answer 4

The Sears tower is 1450 feet.

A quarter is an eighth of an inch.

Do the math

Answer 5

Can't don't have that much money............