Question

Lobo is saving money to buy some new clothes. In January she saved R131,00 in February R246 and in March R 394. Estimate how much money she had saved by the beginning of April and show how you did your estimation.

Answer 1

Lobo approximately saved R700 by the beginning of April by rounding her monthly savings to the nearest hundred and adding them together.

Step-by-step explanation:

To estimate how much money Lobo has saved by the beginning of April, we can round each month's savings to the nearest hundred and then add them up. In January, she saved R131,00 which rounds to R100. In February, she saved R246, which rounds to R200. In March, she saved R394, which can be rounded to R400. Adding these rounded numbers together gives us an estimated total savings by the beginning of April:

• R100 (January)
• + R200 (February)
• + R400 (March)

This gives us an estimated total of R700. Therefore, Lobo has approximately saved R700 by the beginning of April.