$1B Mega Millions jackpot: Surprising things you could buy (2024)

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$1B Mega Millions jackpot: Surprising things you could buy? ›

If someone then gave you a billion dollars and you spent $1,000 each day, you would be spending for about 2,740 years before you went broke.

If someone then gave you a billion dollars and you spent $1,000 each day, you would be spending for about 2,740 years before you went broke.

Someone in New Jersey overcame the odds Tuesday night and won the $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot, breaking a winless streak that dated to last December.

Suppose you had $1-billion. You could spend $5,000 a day for more than 500 years before you would run out of money. Breaking it down even farther, it means you would have to spend over $100,000 every day for the next 25 years in order to spend $1-billion. But what does $1-billion look like?

Short answer is Yes, you can have 1 billion dollars in your personal savings account.

Step 1: Put the ticket in a safe place and sign it.

Make sure you immediately sign the winning lottery ticket, as it is a "bearer" instrument.

If you elected the cash option or if your prize is only offered in a single payment, your check should arrive approximately six to eight weeks from your claim date. If your prize is to be paid in installments, your first payment should be available within six to eight weeks from your claim date.

Originally Answered: What does 1 billion dollars look like in 100 dollar bills? 10 million bills at $100 each. Now the bureau of engraving say all paper bills are the same.

How much does 1 billion dollars weigh in $100 bills? ›

Which denominations are at hand? For example, one billion dollars in $100 bills (1 gram each) would weigh 10 tons — approximately 22,046 pounds. If you were to weigh one billion dollars in 50 cent coins (11.34 g each), it would weigh approximately 22,680 tons.

And $1 billion of $100 bills would be 10 standard construction pallets. But $1 trillion of $100 bills…a million million…a thousand billion…would require 1,000 of those $1 billion pallets, which double stacked would take up an entire football field. That is $1 trillion.

A player in New Jersey matched all six numbers in Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing, winning the $1.13 billion jackpot. This is the first time the jackpot has been won this year, which had been steadily growing since December 2023 over 31 drawings.

June 7, 2019 - $522 million ($340.0 million cash) won by Laarni Bibal with a ticket purchased in San Diego, Calif.

If you write a 1 followed by nine zeros, you get 1,000,000,000 = one billion! That's a lot of zeros!

1 billion dollars in 100 dollar bills is 10 million individual bills. A single brand new bill is 0.0043 inches thick, so that would be a single pile of bills that is 43000 inches thick, which is he same as 3584 feet, or a pile that is 0.68 miles tall.

The median fortune of a Forbes list billionaire is about $2 billion. A conservative 4% annual withdrawal rate would bring their income to about $80 million a year. At that rate, the value of $1 to the average person is the same as $1,355 to a billionaire.