Question

Last weekend, 26, 675 tickets were sold at County Stadium. This weekend 24,567 tickets were sold at County Stadium. If you estimate the number of tickets County Stadium sold over the two weekends by rounding each number to the nearest thousand, then you will find there were about ____ tickets sold.

Answer 1

We have the tickets sold each weekend:

• Last weekend: 26,675

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• This weekend: 24,567

We have to find how many tickets where sold in both weekends by rounding each number to the nearest thousand units. This will let us do the math without a calculator.

Then, we can approximate 26,675 to 27,000 and 24,567 to 25,000.

NOTE: we round the numbers up because the next number is 5 or greater. Then 675 is and 567 are approximated as 1,000.

We then can add them as: 27,000+25,000 = 52,000.

Answer: the solution is about 52,000 tickets sold.

NOTE: the exact solution would have been 51,242