Question

The Sticker Company shipped 5,693,123,456 stickers last month. This month the company shipped 6,966,632,877 stickers. About how many more stickers were shipped this month than last month? A.11,000,000,000B.10,000,000,000C.3,000,000,000D.1,000,000,000

Answer 1

To get how many more stickers were shipped last month than this month, we simply subtract this month's shipment from last month's shipment.

This becomes

`\begin{gathered} 6,966,632,877-5,693,123,456 \\ =1,273,509,421 \end{gathered}`

Therefore, the we have 1,000,000,000 to the nearest billion.

Option D is the correct answer