Question

What is 76.32 divided by 24.98 using compatible numbers to estimate each quotient?

Answer 1

Answer:

Approximately 3.05

Step-by-step explanation:

Using "compatible numbers" we can simply round these numbers to integer values.  Let's make 76.32 => 76 and 24.98 => 25

So from here let's do 76/25 to get 3 R 1/25

1/25 as a decimal is .04

So far, we have 3.04.  Going back to Look at our decimals, .32 and .98, there is a larger difference in our down rounding with the .32 than the up rounding from our .98.  So we should consider an extra value in our decimal.

Considering our whole number of 3.0, we can assume that our rounding will have an increase of about .01 or .015 in error.

Thus our number will be 3.04 + .01.

Making our quotient approximately 3.05.

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