Every year Jeff Bezos sells 5 billion dollars worth of Amazon stock to fund his commercial space company. If you had a job making 250 dollars an hour, how many years would you have to work to make one year's worth of Jeff Bezos funding his space company?

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Every year Jeff Bezos sells 5 billion dollars worth of Amazon stock to fund his commercial space company. If you had a job making 250 dollars an hour, how many years would you have to work to make one year's worth of Jeff Bezos funding his space company? 

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5 billion dollars = 5,000,000,000 dollars

I had a job making 250 dollars an hour

So, total hours I need to reach 5 billion dollars = 5,000,000,000/250 = 20000000 hours 

1 year = 365*24 hours = 8760 hours 

Leap year = 366*24 hours = 8784 hours 

a set of 4 years = 8760*3 + 8784 hours = 35064 hours

total set of 4 years required = 20000000/35064 = 570.3856

So, total years = 570.3856*4 = 2281.54 years

 

 

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