What is the weight of one thousnd standard size bank checks?

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 25 Sep 2004 19:10 PDT

According to this cached document 1000 checks weighs 8 lbs.

"Cademan Enterprises" (Yahoo cached document)
http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?p=%221000+checks%22+%22shipping++weight%22&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&u=www.cademanenterprises.com/thecstoreestore/guest_check.htm&w=%221000+checks%22+%22shipping+weight%22&d=37F2C44050&icp=1&.intl=us

Is that satisfactory as an answer?

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 25 Sep 2004 19:14 PDT

Please disregard. On further examination this example seems to be
"guest checks", or carbon invoices, rather than bank checks. Sorry.

tutuzdad-ga

Dear 6855b,

Checks are most often printed on 20-pound stock. If paper is rated at
20 pounds, it weighs 75.3 grams per square meter.

InkJetArt: Weights and Sizes of Papers
http://www.inkjetart.com/weight.html

A typical check measures 70 millimeters in width and 159 millimeters
in length. The area of 1000 such checks is therefore

  1000 * 70 mm * 159 mm = 11,130,000 mm^2

or 11.13 square meters. We multiply this number by 75.3 grams to find that

  11.13 * 75.3 g = 838.089 g

or about 0.838 kg is the mass of 1000 standard bank checks. In
imperial units, this is

  838.089 / 453.592 = 1.84767

or about 1.85 pounds.

Thanks for the interesting question!

Regards,

leapinglizard


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