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A school is planning a field trip. There are 285 students going and each student needs to pay $12. About how much money will the school collect from the students?
About $3,000
A school is buying new desks for the classrooms. Each classroom needs 28 desks. If there are 145 classrooms in the school, how many desks does the school need to buy in total?
4,060 desks
A wildlife sanctuary has 150 deer. If each deer eats about 5 pounds of food per day, how much food does the sanctuary need to provide for all the deer in a week?
750 pounds of food
A basketball team plays 82 games in a season. If the average attendance per game is 185 people, how many people attended all the games in total?
15,170 people
A giant hamster has 100 hamsters as pets. Each pet hamster has 100 fleas. How many fleas do all the pet hamsters have combined?
10,000 fleas
A grocery store is having a sale on apples. Each bag of apples contains about 24 apples. If the store sells 187 bags of apples, about how many apples did they sell?
About 4,000 apples
A bakery sells chocolate chip cookies by the dozen. If they sell 236 boxes of cookies in a week, how many cookies did they sell in total?
2,832 cookies
A construction company is building a new apartment complex. Each apartment has 100 square feet of living space. If the complex has 200 apartments, how much total living space does it have?
20,000 square feet
A computer factory produces 250 computers per day. If the factory works for 28 days, how many computers will it produce in total?
7,000 computers
Max has 25 rubber ducks. Eden has 3 times as many rubber ducks as Max. How many rubber ducks does Eden have?
75 ducks
A farmer is planting a field of corn. The field is about 320 feet long and 185 feet wide. About how many square feet of corn will he plant?
About 60,000 square feet
A factory produces 485 toys each day. If it works for 23 days, how many toys will it produce in total?
11,155 toys
A spacecraft travels at a speed of 20,000 miles per hour. How far will it travel in 10 hours?
200,000 miles
A school library has 1,245 books on the shelves. If each book is 2 inches thick, how long would a stack of all the books be?
2,490 inches long
A dog barks 20 times an hour. How many times will it bark in 24 hours?
480 times
A library has 1,234 books on the shelves. If each book weighs about 2 pounds, about how much do all the books weigh together?
2,400 pounds
A theater has 236 rows of seats. Each row has 17 seats. How many seats are there in the theater in total?
4,012 seats
A recipe for a cake calls for 300 grams of flour. If you want to make 5 cakes, how much flour do you need?
1,500 grams
A farm has 285 cows. Each cow produces about 22 gallons of milk per week. How many gallons of milk does the farm produce in a week?
6,270 gallons
A sheep counts 125 blades of grass every day. How many blades of grass will it count in 1 year?
45,625 blades of grass