Penny Wars - The Results Edition

The results are in for the much-anticipated Penny Wars. Before I reveal the winner, here's a picture of the jars prior to the counting:

[P1, P2, and P3 Jars]

Based on the height of the jars alone, you may notice a couple things

• The P1 and P2 jars are nearly equal in height
• The P2 jar has a lot of bills on top
• Tiffany Pfundt's jar is the highest and has even more bills (due to the P2's scrambling on the last day to level out the P3's)

From this angle, you can see a nice hefty, rolled up wad of bills in Tiffany's jar:

COUNTING

Counting the coins is no easy task, and thankfully, we have a TCF Bank nearby with a coin counter. Just dump the coins in and wait, right? Oops! We have to remove the bills first... Great, now what do we do?

[Dominick Rutherford manually taking out the bills one-by-one]

Putting our tuition dollars to good use:

[Eric Zhao and Jenna Bognaski with The Michigan Difference. Rachel Joseph telling a joke.]

But wait, there's more! James McKenzie comes along with his wise P3 knowledge:

[They don't give us Pharm.D.'s for nothing]

THE RESULTS

I know the pharmacy students have already received an email with the results, so I am posting this for the zero people on the world wide web following us on our suspenseful journey. Here is the breakdown of each class:

P1

• Quarters (qty): 193
• Dimes: 158
• Nickels: 120
• Pennies: 2469

• Total coins (amt): $94.74
• Bills (amount): $89.00
• Total score: 574 points

P2

• One Dollar Coins (qty): 4
• Quarters: 336
• Dimes: 523
• Nickels: 252
• Pennies: 1769

• Total coins (amt): $170.59
• Bills (amt): $84.00
• Total score: 8,659 points

P3

• Quarters: 551
• Dimes: 485
• Nickels: 295
• Pennies: 2225

• Total coins (amt): $233.25
• Bills (amt): $133.00
• Total score: 10,025 points

And the winner of 2010 Penny Wars is..........................Tiffany Pfundt!! And the Class of 2011!! Congratulations!!!! Overall, we raised a mind-blasting total of $804.58 for Relay For Life. Looking forward to the War next year!

-EZ

PS The P1's had the most pennies in their jar, so I'm wondering if they took Penny Wars a little too literally. We'll name it Quarter Wars for them next year, or better yet, Sacagawea Golden Dollar Coin Wars.