a popular attraction at the world's exhibition was a sealed glass box containing 500.000 american one dollar bills. this was a fundraiser where for $10 a ticket a person could guess how many bills the box contained. at the end of the exhibition, when the seal was broken and the bills counted, there were only 470.000. sid shady was responsible for enclosing teh money. when questioned by shadow, shady said that he personally counted each bill by hand. "to be sure" he added "i counted them twice by hand during the two days before the box was sealed i could have been out 80 or 90 dollars, but not 30.000!" he protested. shadow insists shdy is lying. how can he be so sure?
2007-11-06 06:09:02 · 2 answers · asked by chantrelle 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
There are only 172,800 seconds in 48 hours. Counting 500,000 bills in 172,800 seconds is 2.89 bills per second. Doing it twice is virtually impossible.
2007-11-06 07:09:46 · answer #1 · answered by jurydoc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are 172,800 seconds in two days. Shady couldn't have possibly counted all the bills by hand.
2007-11-06 06:16:11 · answer #2 · answered by Robert S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋