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Course: Grade 3 (FL B.E.S.T.) > Unit 9
Lesson 1: Estimation word problems2-step estimation word problems
Sal solves a 2-step estimation word problem with whole numbers.
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- I didn't understood :( Why should we change the amount?(12 votes)
- because, the question asked to estimate. So sal rounded to the nearest tens place(23 votes)
- Total tires needed: 28 cars * 4 tires/car = 112 tires
Subtract the tires he already has: 112 needed tires - 22 existing tires = 90 tires to buy
So, the race car driver needs to buy approximately 90 tires.(5 votes)- No one hundred 💯(4 votes)
- It’d two different answer how does this make sense(6 votes)
- What does estimate mean?(0 votes)
- To estimate means to make a good guess. It's like when you look at a jar of jellybeans and try to guess how many are inside. You don't count each one, but you make a good guess based on what you see. In math, we often estimate to make numbers easier to work with. For example, if a number is 28, we might estimate it to 30 because it's a "friendlier" number.(12 votes)
- When is it more useful to use estimation in real life?(5 votes)
- Can someone give me an example of PEMDAS ? Because I don't know it.╮(╯_╰)╭(3 votes)
- Good question🧐. PEMDAS stands for P- Parentheses, E- Exponents, M- Multiplication, D- Division, A- Addition, and S- Subtraction. If you see any question, solve the parentheses first, after that exponents and.... . There are other way to say it like BEDMAS (Depends where you are).
for example, 24÷6-3+(12-6)
1. (12-6)=6
2. 24÷6=4
3. 4-3=1
4. 1+6=7
Hope this helps!!Good luck!!^-^(2 votes)
- the answer is 112 right(2 votes)
- If the question says estimate, but you give the exact answer, would that be marked wrong?(2 votes)
- nope you just have to do closest(1 vote)
- i don't know how to solve it(1 vote)
Video transcript
- [Instructor] We are told
that a race car driver has 28 cars. Each car has four tires. He has to replace all
the tires on the cars. He has 22 tires right now. Estimate the total number
of tires he needs to buy. So pause this video and
see if you can do that. And the key word here is estimate. You don't have to figure out exactly. You just need to figure out roughly the total number of tires he needs to buy. All right, now let's work
through this together. And as I mentioned, the
key word here is estimate. And estimating is something
we'll do throughout our lives. I probably do it once a day at least. And when you're estimating, you want to make all the
numbers roughly right, but also think about,
hey, what do I need to, how do I need to them about them in order to make the
computation a little bit easier or a little bit friendlier? So if I wanted to figure out exactly how many tires he needed to buy, I would say, hey, he has 28 cars. He has 28 cars. Each car has four tires. So each car has four tires. So if you wanted to know the
total of number of tires, you would multiply 28 times four. And then it says he has to replace all the tires on the cars. And if he didn't have any, this is the number that
he would have to replace, but it says he has 22 tires right now. So if we were trying
to figure out exactly, you would say 28 times four, that's how many he needs to replace, but he already has 22,
so you subtract that out, and this whole number would
be the number he needs to buy. Now this calculation isn't so easy to do, especially if you're doing it
on a napkin or in your head. But that's why we're going to estimate. So if we're estimating, we say, hey, what's a friendlier number than 28? Well, 28 is pretty close to 30. So I could say, so if I say,
hey, 28 is pretty close to 30. So that's our way of making
the 28 a little bit friendlier. Four is already pretty easy to deal with. And then the 22, well,
that could be a lot easier to deal with, if instead of it being a 22, if that were, let's say that's
approximately equal to 20. So 22 is approximately, roughly equal, that's what these squiggly
equal signs mean, to 20. And so that simplifies
the calculation a lot. We could say that this thing
up here is roughly equal to, he roughly has 30 cars, and each of those cars need four tires, and then he's going to figure
out the total number of tires he needs to replace, but
then he subtracts out the number that he already has. So instead of subtracting out 22, we're gonna subtract out
roughly how many he already has, roughly 20. And this computation
right here is a lot easier to do in our head. Three times four is 12,
so 30 times four is 120. So this part right over here is 120. And then you subtract 20 from that. Well, 120 minus 20, well,
that is going to be 100. So he roughly needs, if I were
to estimate the total number of tires he needs to buy,
it would be about 100 tires.