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Treasure chest (ExH). Someone offers to give you a million dollars ($1,000,000) in one-dollar ($1) bills. To receive the money, you must lie down: the million one-dollar bills will be placed on your stomach.
If you keep them on your stomach for 10 minutes, the money is yours! Do you accept the offer? Carefully explain your answer using quantitative reasoning.
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