Answer:
$900 trillion
Explanation:
If Alaska is 20% of the contiguous US, then the approximate area of interest is ...
1200 miles × 3000 miles = 3.6×10^6 square miles.
The size of a dollar bill is about ...
(6.5 cm)·(15.5 cm) = 100.75 cm^2
One mile is 160,934.4 cm, so 1 square mile is about ...
1 mi^2 = (160,934.4 cm)^2 ≈ 2.59·10^10 cm^2
The number of dollars of interest is then ...
(3.6 · 10^6 mi^2)(2.59 · 10^10 cm^2)/(100.75 cm^2) ≈ 9.3·10^14
≈ 930 × 10^12 . . . dollars
It would cost about 900 trillion dollars to cover the land area of the US in $1 bills.
