Summary for weight in pennies Discussion
weight in pennies is answered by converting body weight to ounces and then using an approximate penny count per ounce. Timothy asked how many pennies would equal about 128 pounds. Trevor Crichton suggested the general method: identify the needed conversion factors and apply them. Alexis H. provided a rough estimate, saying he found 13 pennies per ounce; using 16 ounces per pound, 128 pounds becomes 2,048 ounces, or about 26,624 pennies. The thread then shifts to Joe M.’s separate question about estimating the number of pennies in a half-filled 5-gallon water bottle. The reply notes that the bottle’s weight could be used, but volume may be even easier for approximation, since the air space should be fairly consistent from bottle to bottle. The discussion is practical but approximate, not an exact counting method.
Q. I want to know my weight in pennies. I weigh about 128-ish (around that general area). I can’t figure out how many pennies it would take. Can someone help me?
Timothy [surname deleted for privacy by Editor]
– Buford, Georgia, America
2004
A. The solution to problems like this usually involves formulating a general approach to attack the problem, then listing what information that approach requires you to have available, then getting those pieces of information, then applying them.
Ted Mooney, P.E.
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2004
A. There are 1.555g in one pennyweight and 24 grains in one pennyweight. You now know how many grams, grains and pennyweights you weigh.
Trevor Crichton
R&D practical scientist
Chesham, Bucks, UK
2004
A. I weighed pennies. I found out that 13 pennies = about 1 ounce. You weigh 128 pounds. There are 16 ounces in a pound so you weigh
2048 oz. That = about 26624 pennies.
Alexis H.
– Sugar Land, Texas
2007
A. I have a 5 gallon water bottle half filled with pennies. Don’t want to count them would like to weight it to get an idea
Joe M.
– Somer Point, New Jersey, USA
January 23, 2008
A. Go to it, Joe. You have the weight of one penny here.
Even easier for an approximation would be to go by volume. Although we don’t know exactly how much of the 5 gallons is lost to air space, it must be a reasonably consistent figure from one water bottle to the next. So if you weigh yours when it’s full to the top, other readers will know approximately how many pennies are in theirs as well.
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January 25, 2008