How large is a million dollars?
That is what everyone is asking even little kids like me. Most people just spend spend on little gadgets. I learned that the largest United States bill in circulation is the one hundred dollar bill and it takes 1000 of those to make one million dollars. A pile of one million in $100 bills fills up about 643 cubic inches (8″ x 6″x 13″) and was about the size of a 15 inch television set. It weighs almost 20 pounds (9 kilos). The stack of bills and it was 40 inches high (one meter). That is how much one million dollars is. I guess a million dollars in one dollar bills would be 100 meters high. * Third Place: “Billions of Mice” by Travis King age 12, grade 8, homeschooled, Westmoreland, Tennessee, U.S. “I just don’t understand big numbers!” cried Mimi the cat to her friend, TJ. “Why not?” “They’re so… so… BIG!” she started crying. “I don’t understand how many a billion is or a million or even a thousand! I know a million is a thousand thousands, and that a billion is a thousand million
