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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