Question

4. A bakery can make 58 packages of cookies

in one hour. There are 24 cookies in each
package. Which is the best estimate of the
number of cookies the bakery makes in one
hour.
a. 12,000
b. 120
c. 1,200
Show work to support your answer.

Answer 1

C

Explanation:

58*24=1392, which is closest to 1200.

Or, you could round the numbers to the nearest tens place, which would give you 60*20, giving you the exact answer of 1200. I think this was the preferred way of solving it.