Question

Students in the Scott School District spent two weeks collecting a total of 5,853 books to donate to local hospitals. The first week, the students collected 2,054 books. About how many books did the students collect for the hospitals the second week? Choose the better estimate.

Answer 1

3799 books

Explanation:

We have the total number of books collected as 5,853 books

In the first week, a total of 2,054 books were collected.

If the collection of books went on for two weeks;

Hence in the second week, a total of (5,853 - 2,054) were collected.

Therefore, number of books collected in the second week = 3799 books