Question

This year consumers purchased 6,234,267,990 strawberries. Last year consumers purchased 3,000,900,999 strawberries. Which is the best estimate of how many more strawberries were sold this year than last year?A.3,000,000,000B.3,233,366,991C.7,000,000,000D.9,000,000,000

Answer 1

Problem Statement

The question tells us that customers bought 6,234,267,990 strawberries this year and 3,000,900,999 strawberries last year. We are asked to find how many more strawberries were sold this year than last year.

Solution

To find the extra number of strawberries bought this year more than last year, we simply take the difference between the number of

strawberries bought last year and the number of strawberries bought this year.

This calculation is done below:

Final Answer

The number of strawberries sold this year more than last year is 3,233,366,991 (OPTION B)