Math Problem - How many Cans ??

[crash325]

1 Dry empty Beer can weighs 15 Kilograms.

How many cans at .45c a pound will it take to get a $2000 down payment on a newer pick up????

Will I kill my liver first or just die of old age ??

 

[ovrszd]

I'm guessing it'll take enough that you won't care anymore.

 

[davesl708]

Your liver would be toast. I think it is around 33 12oz cans to make a pound. Better gets some friends to help.

 

[kubotacres]

30240

 

[George2615]

Whether you die or kill your liver depends on how much beer you can afford, consume and how your system processes the alcohol. But to answer your question my guess it would take about 13,439.76 cans. It would be cheaper to skip a few beers to save up the 2K down payment.

 

[ovrszd]

You two need to post your mathematical formula used to reach your conclusions. We have a huge disparity.

 

[fordmantpw]

13468.01 beers, but you have to have enough to cover, so 13469.

That is using your figures. However, they are way off.

1 beer can does not weigh 15 Kg. That's 2.2 lbs.
Also, aluminum is bringing more than .45 cents (which is equivalent to $0.0045) / lb.

Now, by correcting the numbers:

There are approximately 33 cans / lb. If each lb. brings 45 cents, then it is 1.36 cents per can.
You need 200,000 cents, so you need 146,667 cans.

Yeah, you're gonna need some help.

 

[JPRambo]

I beleive you mean to say a empty 12 oz. can weights 15 grams.(not kilograms).
fordman beat me to it

 

[ovrszd]

That sounds more like it!!!!!!

 

[George2615]

At .45 a pound he'd need 4,444.4444444 pounds to have $2000.
Rounding off the pounds to 4,444.444 = about 201,596.40 kg.
201,596.40kg / 15 kg per can = 13,439.76 cans

fordmantpw is correct about the can weight being gram instead of kg. I just went by the OP's info

so multiply my original can number X 1000 = 13,439,760 cans

 

[zzvyb6]

Around here, you can do better by walking the freeways and collecting the aluminum wheels and trim parts from crashes as well as going around subdivisions on trash day and picking up the discarded stainless steel barbeque grills.

 

[ovrszd]

Around here, you can do better by walking the freeways and collecting the aluminum wheels and trim parts from crashes as well as going around subdivisions on trash day and picking up the discarded stainless steel barbeque grills.

Now how ya goin to have time to drink all that Beer while doing that?????

 

[davesl708]

Ok, here is some math.

13,469 cans /12 = 1,122 12 packs @ roughly $8.99 ea. equals $10,090.53.

So, get your friends to buy and drink the beer and give you the empties. Problem solved.

 

[crash325]

Well you folks are right.
Can weights 15 grams & on the pound side scale says .6 OZ.

Maybe if I live to be 160 years old, it will work out.:thumbsup:

What ya think
Jim

 

[ovrszd]

Maybe we need to pool our resources. You guys mail me all your cans and I'll collect them until I have the $2000 that Jim needs, then I'll contact him and see if he still wants the new truck.

 

[KennyG]

You're going about this all wrong. Here in Michigan, the deposit on a can (beer or soft drinks) is 10 cents. Come up here and do what the locals do, steal the cans from people before they return them. You only need 20,000 that way.

 

[ovrszd]

Since the first step to recovery is recognition of a problem, I'll make a confession.

Helo, my name is Richard, I am a collector of Aluminum Busch Light cans. I currently have twelve 30 gallon trash bags full of crushed Busch Light cans. I pledge to take my cans to the recycling site and sell them soon......

 

[George2615]

Using KennyG's logic is better. Even at .05 cents per can you'd only need 40,000 cans to come up with 2K.
I guess I got my decimal points in the wrong place converting to the foreign metric system.

 

[lilranch2001]

Around here al you would need to do is walk along my road
I think every frikken drunk driver drives down my road to throw out their cans

:smiley_aafz:

 

[ovrszd]

Actually Kenny's logic is flawed. For example, I can buy a 30 pack of Busch Light cans for $19.85 here in Missouri. Iowa has a can return price of .05. Iowans flock across the border to Missouri to buy Beer and Cigarettes to avoid things like extreme high tobacco tax and inflated product cost to offset the can return price. So for Kenny's philosophy to work he has to handle the cans and drive them back to the store to get his refund,,,,, which then puts his purchase price of the product down to a similar level that I pay. And I still have my cans to sell.