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lapfog_1

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3. so what am I doing wrong here?

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 9, 2018, 10:49 PM

Aug 2018

106 million pennies divided by 6,604 million gallons.

They say they are selling around 20,000 acre feet... each acre foot is about 325,000 gallons.

325,000 x 20,000 = 6,500,000,000

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.016 PENNIES per gallon lapfog_1 Aug 2018 #1

It is 1.6 cents per gallon. TexasTowelie Aug 2018 #2

so what am I doing wrong here? lapfog_1 Aug 2018 #3

You're correct. I needed to recheck my decimal places. TexasTowelie Aug 2018 #4