Nickels weight 5 grams each. So that's 125 grams for one soda.
a 20-ounce soda weighs in at 567 grams. That would take 113 nickels ($5.67).
25 cents! that's just five nickels. That'll get ya 0.88 ounces! That's not even a sip of soda!
At least 35 cents in nickels is 1.2345 ounces. What a neat number. That's how the decimal actually plays out.
Did you know that Google will do conversions for you? I just do a search for:
35 grams in ounces" and Google will convert the number for ya!
It would be great if soda machines could take pennies. Yeah! pump 125 pennies into it. Other than the Illinois Toll Road, is there any machines that actually take pennies. And I'm not talking about the ripoff coin exchange machines at grocery stores that take like 10% of your money. I'm talkin about good ol fashioned machines that will give me something in return for my pennies.
There are those penny smoosher machines, but you also have to feed two quarters with the one penny. I want a machine that will take the entire price in the quantity of pennies.
No, there isn't ... reason #4 why pennies should be abolished!
It took me 60 seconds to put $1.25 worth of nickels into the soda machine. That included me dropping a couple on the ground and picking them up. And about five nickels dropped down into the coin return and had to be re-entered. So there is room for improvement on the 60-second time.
"a 20-ounce soda weighs in at 567 grams. That would take 113 nickels ($5.67)."
Spudart, unless you actually put a can of soda on a scale and it weighed 20 ounces, which converts to 567 grams, that's not quit right.
If you are talking about a 20 fluid ounce bottle of soda, fluid ounces measure the volume of soda in the bottle, not the weight of the soda or the bottle.
A 20 fluid ounce bottle of soda weighs significantly more than 20 ounces.
See here:
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/60749.html
