Sheet # 306/Estimating Answers
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1) A clown painted 27 stars each day for 7 days. What is the best estimate of the total number of stars the clown painted?
2) Jose is training for a bike race. He rode 27 miles each day for 5 days. What is the best estimate of the total number of miles he rode?
3) A band practiced for 33 minutes each day for 7 days. What is the best estimate of the total number of minutes they practiced?
4) Mrs. Ableton is putting new strings on guitars. She has 58 guitars to string. Each guitar needs 6 strings. What is the best estimate of the total number of strings she needs?
5) There are 62 children in the chorus. They form 10 groups to practice. What is the best estimate of the number of children in each group?
Answers for sheet # 306
1) A clown painted 27 stars each day for 7 days. What is the best estimate of the total number of stars the clown painted?
27 is rounded to 30
30 x 7 = 210 stars
2) Jose is training for a bike race. He rode 27 miles each day for 5 days. What is the best estimate of the total number of miles he rode?
27 is rounded to 30 miles
30 x 5 = 150 miles
3) A band practiced for 33 minutes each day for 7 days. What is the best estimate of the total number of minutes they practiced?
33 is rounded to 30. 30 x 7 = 210 days
4) Mrs. Ableton is putting new strings on guitars. She has 58 guitars to string. Each guitar needs 6 strings. What is the best estimate of the total number of strings she needs?
58 is rounded to 60. 60 x 6 = 360 strings
5) There are 62 children in the chorus. They form 8 groups to practice. What is the best estimate of the number of children in each group?
62 is rounded to 60. 6 children per group.