Question 14 Math Help Needed

Question

each day e purchase 1.5 thousand cans of beans per minute. use the fact that there are approximately 5.3 x 10 ^5 minutes in a year to approximate how many cans of beans are purchased in one year write your answer in scientific notation

Answer 1

To solve this normally, you would just multiply the two values, because beans/minute*minute/year=beans/year. Since you are supposed to estimate, you should probably round the significant numbers (1.5 and 5.3) to whole numbers and multiply them, then multiply by the 10^5 and 10^3. (The 10^3 comes from the "1.5 thousand".