Friday, November 1, 2013

​How many pencil shavings would it take to fill up a cruise ship and how many haves pencils would be used?

​1. Background story
How many pencil shavings would it take to fill up a cruise ship and how many haves pencils would be used? 
2. Ask yourself
How many square centimeters does a shaved pencil fill up?
How many square centimeters are in a hollow cruise ship?
How tightly compacted would the shavings be?
3. Helpful hints
​One pencil worth of pencil shavings takes up two cubic centimeters.​
240,727,291,192 cubic centimeters in a hollowed cruise ship.​
I found the perimeter of a cruise ship to get a more detailed estimation.

4. Formula 
240,727,291,192 divided by 2.​241x10^10.​240,727,291,192 is about 241,000,000,000.​

5. Math 241,000,000,000=241x10^10.​241,000,000,000

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