You know the following information:
1. The amount of money (in dollars) earned last year was:
2. The amount of money (in dollars) earned this year, is:
Then, to estimate the sum (the total amount of money the Software Company earned in those two years, you can round the numbers to the nearest billion.
Having:
You need to look at the digit located in the Hundred millions place. Notice that this is:
Then, since:
You need can't round up. Then:
Now, having:
You can identify that the digit in the Hundred millions place is
Therefore:
Now you can add the numbers rounded:
Hence, the answer is: Option B.
The hourly wage is approximately $26 per hour. Find out how many hours the person works per year by multiplying 40 x 50 to get 2,000 hours. Then divide 52,000 by 2,000 to get the person's hourly wage, which is $26 hours per hour.
Answer:
591,800,000
Step-by-step explanation:
The 7 in 753,460 is rounded to an 8 because if the number after it is 5 or higher you turn all the numbers after the 7 into a 0 and turn 7 into a 8.
Answer:
We have 8 more boys than girls on the swim team.
Step-by-step explanation:
The ratio of boys to girls on a swim team is represented as:
4 : 2
Total number of athletes is given as 24
Total ratio is given as:
4 + 2 = 6
Step 1
We find the number of boys and girls
Number of boys = 4/6 × 24 = 16 boys.
Number of girls = 2/6 × 24 = 8 girls.
Therefore, since we have 16 boys and 8 girls on the swim team, we have 8 more boys than girls on the swim team.
