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Kurt and Maria’s high school is having a newspaper drive.The goal is to collect 3,585 pounds of newspapers. So far, 21% of the goal has been reached. Kurt estimated the number of pounds of newspapers collected
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Kurt and Maria’s high school is having a newspaper drive.The goal is to collect 3,585 pounds of newspapers. So far, 21% of the goal has been reached. Kurt estimated the number of pounds of newspapers collected by finding 10% of 3,600 and then multiplying the result by 2. Maria estimated the number of pounds of newspapers collected by finding mc006-1.jpg of 3,600. Who is right, and why?
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Kurt and Maria were both right
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Both Kurt and Maria are right, because 3585 will be rounded up to 3600 durning intermediate calculations and 21% of this amount can be approximated by either finding 10% of 3600 and multiplying the result by 2 or by finding
of 3600.
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