How Much Money Should Dr. Evil Demand? - Robert Kaplinsky. If you think others need to see this, share it on one of the sites below by clicking on the button. How much money should Dr. Evil demand? What would the inflation rate have to be for one million dollars in 1967 to be equivalent to one hundred billion dollars in 1997? When would demanding one hundred billion dollars be equivalent to demanding one million dollars in 1967? These questions may be useful in helping students down the problem solving path:What is a guess that is too low? What is a guess that is too high? I imagine that after showing the video, students will already be asking themselves the first challenge question: “How much money should Dr. What is a guess that is too low? It is also a good time to make sure students understand the movie’s context.
Eventually we want to get them to that third bullet and wonder about how to figure out how much money that would be. The chart below shows the average annual inflation by decade for the United States and United Kingdom (where Dr.