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On an average day, 38 customers buy a bag of grapes at Jerry's Market. There are an average of 47 grapes in each bag. Round to the nearest ten and then multiply to estimate the number of grapes Jerry's customers buy every day.

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Explanation:

the meaning of that request is really to estimate by rounding the actual numbers to numbers than can be easily multiplied in our heads, and give the result of that multiplication as estimated result.

so, 38 rounded to the nearest 10 is 40.

47 rounded to the nearest ten is 50.

so, we estimate that Jerry's customers buy about

40×50 = 2000 grapes every day.