Answer & explanation
Canadian $100 bills, in Canadian dollars
The official answer, with Fermi’s reasoning step by step.
Answer & explanation
Official answer
10,000,000
dollars
How to estimate it
Fermi’s official “Napkin math”
Banks bundle bills into stacks of 100, which is $10,000 in hundreds. How heavy is a stack? I have definitely never held one but I can imagine, maybe a 1/4 pound.
- 220 lb ÷ ¼ lb a stack
- ≈ 880 stacks
- Each stack
- × $10,000
- 880 × $10,000
- ≈ $8,800,000
Banks bundle bills into stacks of 100, which is $10,000 in hundreds. How heavy is a stack? I have definitely never held one but I can imagine, maybe 125 grams.
- 100 kg ÷ 125 g a stack
- ≈ 800 stacks
- Each stack
- × $10,000
- 800 × $10,000
- ≈ $8,000,000
Rounded assumptions may give a slightly different estimate. The official answer above is the game’s reference value.
Source calculation & reference
- 100 kg of bills ÷ 1 g each (Canadian polymer $100)
- = 100,000 bills
- Face value of each bill
- × $100
- 100,000 × $100
- = $10,000,000
Reference cited by Fermi: Bank of Canada
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