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Cherries cost $5.68 a pound. Will $20 be enough to buy a 4.1-pound bag of cherries? Explain how to determine whether $20 is the correct estimate of the product of $5.68(4.1).​

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Answer: The $20 estimate is too low. $5.68 was incorrectly rounded down; it should have been rounded up to $6. The correct estimate should have been $24, so $20 will not be enough to buy 4.1 pounds of cherries.

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it is incorrect becuase 5.68 rounded is 6 , 4.1 rounded is 4 . 4 times 6 equals 24

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