Question

A shopping channel shipped 467,023 packages last year. What is a reasonable estimate of number of packages shipped?Explain.

Answer 1

470,000 because when you round the number up, you get 470,000. it is reasonable

Answer 2

470,000

Explanation:

A shopping channel shipped 467,023 packages last year.

Now, the most reasonable estimate of number of packages shipped will be rounding this digit to nearest ten thousand.

Rounding this number to nearest ten thousand we get, 470,000.

This is because the most reasonable estimate means the nearest rounded off number so, 67023 is rounded to 70000.