Question

if 1 trillion one dollar bills were placed flat in a rectangle with no gaps and no overlap, how many square meters would the dollar bills cover

Answer 1

one dollar bills size is 2.61 squared inches
and 1 squared inch equals 0.00064516 meter
one trillion is: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
So the size of the dollar bill in meters is:
(2.61)(0.00064516) = 0.0016 squared meters
therefore the area covered by the dollar bills is:
1,000,000,000,000,000,000*0.0016
= 1.6 x 10^15 square meters
that is scientific notation (1.6 followed by 15 zeroes)