IXL | Multi-step word problems: identify reasonable answers

Norma is an editor. She needs to review a textbook with 398 pages. She plans to review 9 pages each day for the next 31 days. She works out that she will have 279 pages left to review after that. Does that sound about right?

Yes.

No, it is much too high.

No, it is much too low.

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question

The Wilsons are storing water in case there is a natural disaster. They have 12 small bottles of water that hold 8 ounces each. They also have 4 large bottles of water that hold 24 ounces each. They estimate that they have around 2,000 ounces of water in total. Is that a good estimate?

Yes.

No, it is much too high.

No, it is much too low.

solution

To check the estimate, find about how many ounces of water the Wilsons have. Use numbers that are easy to work with and that are close to the numbers in the problem.

The Wilsons have 12 small bottles of water that hold 8 ounces each. That is about 10 bottles with 10 ounces each. Multiply to estimate the total amount from the small bottles.

100

The Wilsons also have 4 large bottles of water that hold 24 ounces each. That is 4 bottles with about 25 ounces each. Multiply to estimate the total amount from the large bottles.

100

Finally, estimate the total amount of water. Add the amount from the small bottles and the amount from the large bottles.

100

200

The Wilsons have around 200 ounces of water in total. An estimate of 2,000 is much too high.

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