Question

There are 486 hamsters at a private showing of a new documentary about humans. If there are 12 seats in each row, about how many rows will the hamsters fill? Choose the best estimate.

A. 20
B.4
C.40
D.60

Answer 1

C.

Explanation:

Take the first two numbers of 486.

How many times does 12 fit into 48?

4 times.

Since all of the estimations do not have any form of individual single digits (as they do normally), we would dismiss the 6 and use its place just as a '0.'

40.

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Answer 2

C, 40

Explanation:

If there are 12 seats in each row, and 486 hamsters total, then we can safely assume one hamster takes up one seat.

To find out how many rows they can take, we need to divide the number of hamsters by the number of seats to get 486 / 12 approximately equals 40.