if the problem is 5576 DIVIDED BY 3 .....will the estimate be
5000 divided by 3?? and you guess the answer???
2007-12-01 15:05:10 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
No, when you estimate an answer, you come close to the answer without giving the exact answer. if you divide 3 into 5576, you can see that it is not a whole number. So you would come as close as you can to the correct amount. I did this on a calculator. The exact answer is 1858.666666666666666667 so a close estimate would be 1860
2007-12-01 15:18:04 · answer #1 · answered by Sicilian Godmother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
think of what 1/3 of 5576 could possibly be...its close to 6000 which one third of is 2000. then 1/3 of about 600 is 200. subtract 200 from 2000. think of fractions of the number and use rounding
2007-12-01 23:10:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋