Estimating Products
Estimate 147 to x 62
100 x 60 = about 6000
or 150 x 60 = 9000
43 x 8
344
24 x 17
408
216 x 3
648
Juliana buys squishes for her collection. She has 17. Liv has 6 times the amount of squishes as Juliana. How many squishes does Liv have?
102 squishes
Estimate 378 x 43
400 x 40 = about 16,000
or 380 x 40 = 15,200
37 x 6
222
38 x 27
1026
456 x 4
1824
A new soccer player shoots 18 goals in the season. Lorenzo scores 8 times the amount of goals as the new soccer player. How many goals does Lorenzo score in the season?
144
Estimate 417 x 25
400 x 30 = 12000
420 x 30 = 12,600
45 x 6
270
49 x 26
1274
742 x 37
27454
Sarah spent 273 minutes reading this month. Jane spent 13 times the amount of minutes Sarah spent. How many minutes did Jane read?
3,549 minutes
Old St. Mary's ordered 117 cartons of assignment notebooks. The books were shipped in cartons that each held 16 books. Estimate the amount of cartons to the nearest hundred and find about how many assignment notebooks were in the shipment. Write an equation to model your work.
100 x 16 = 1600 (about 1600 books)
81 x 4
324
87 x 25
2175
658 x 26
17108
Josie spent 723 minutes writing last year. Caroline spent 26 times the amount of time Josie spent. How many minutes did Caroline spend?
18,798 minutes writing
Harper ordered 873 stickers for her school. The rival school order 6 times as many stickers. How many stickers did the rival school order? Estimate to the nearest hundred for 873.
900 x 6 = 5400
97 x 9
873
96 x 85
8160
787 x 93
73191
At a basketball practice, John took 373 shots. His friend Peter took 4 times as many shots as John. Write and solve an equation to find s, the number of shots that Peter took.
s=373 x 4
1492