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Old 03-15-2019, 03:13 PM   #5
Clodfobble
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Originally Posted by glatt
There are 40 boxes of paper on this pallet. Each box contains 10 reams. You probably purchase one ream at time when you buy paper and know how much that is. (500 pages of paper per ream)

Doing the math, this pallet contains 200,000 pages of paper.

You would need 5 of these pallets to get to a million.

That's a lot of paper.
Yet at the same time, my kids' annual school supply list includes two reams of paper from every secondary student, which comes out to about 1,400 reams of paper, or more than 3 pallets, each year. Americans use a lot of paper.
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