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Jaston has 75 feet of wallpaper border. He wants to put up a wallpaper boarder around his rectangular bedroom that measures 12 feet by 14 feet. He multiplies 12x14=168 to get an exact answer of how much border he needs. h

He concludes that he doesn't have enough border for the whole job. Question(s)
1. Tell how you can critique Jason's reasoning.
2.Critique Jason's reasoning.
3.Jason uses an overestimate to decide how many rolls of wallpaper he needs for another room. Explain why his reasoning to usean over estimate does or does not make sense.

Jaston has 75 feet of wallpaper border. He wants to put up a wallpaper boarder around-example-1

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Answer:

Im not sure... the person below me looks as if he has it down

Explanation:

User Mayqiyue
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#3 is he got extra rolls just in case in ran out of it or he made mistake on the math
User Ziganotschka
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