Originally Posted by Dollarmansteve

I'd take the 1M pennies, hire 20 people at $7 per hour. Each person would have to roll 1000 rolls of pennies. Assuming each person can complete 250 rolls/8hr day, it would take 4 days to roll all the pennies. The total man hours involved are 20 x 8 x 4 = 640 x$7/hr = $4480 for a net profit of $5520 guaranteed.