Question

A toy factory sold 120,587 toys in 25 days. If each toy was sold for $58, about how much money did the factory earn in 25 days? Estimate the answer by rounding off the number of toys to the nearest thousand.

Answer 1

Answer: $7,018,000

This value is a little over 7 million dollars

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Explanation:

120,587 rounds to 121,000 when rounding to the nearest thousand.

The instructions don't mention rounding 58, so we'll leave it as that

Multiply the values to get

58*121,000 = 7,018,000

which is the estimate of how much money was earned.

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The actual amount of money earned is

58*120,587 = 6,994,046

which isn't too far off of our estimate.

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Note: the value of 25 days is never used. You could have any other number of days you want, and the answer is still the same. This value is probably either filler or some kind of distraction.