Estimate

Estimate

What is it?

• An educated guess

• Has to be reasonable

• Make sense

Today

Today you must ROUND before you estimate

Multiple Choice

Barnes and Noble had a total of 18,898 books on stock. Half Price Books had a total of 15,209 books on stock. The companies sold a total 11, 223 books. About many books are left between the two companies?

• 24, 000

• 23,000

• 18,000

• 14,000

Multiple Choice

A restaurant purchased 12, 156 pounds of potatoes last year. This same restaurant purchased 14, 809 pounds of tomatoes. After half of a year the restaurant had used up 5, 239 pounds of the potatoes and tomatoes. About how many pounds of tomatoes and potatoes did they have left?

• 21,000

• 18,000

• 14,000

• 22,000